SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #346

[Philip & Susan Troy]

John and Barbara Enloe wrote:
> 
> There are numerous documentations for potatoes in late period (last 25 or
> so years).
> 
>                  jon

What there is, is _some_ documentation, not especially numerous,
suggesting that sweet potatoes were occasionally eaten in late period,
particularly in Spain, Portugal, and England, more or less as a novelty.

That doesn't mean that white Virginia potatoes were typical of the
cuisines of Medieval Europe, even if the documentation that exists for
sweet potatoes did, in fact, refer to white ones, which are botanically
very different.

It can get confusing, because sweet potatoes are almost invariably
referred to as simply "potatoes", until years later , when it became
necessary to use the qualifiers of "sweet" and "Virginia" or "white". It
is primarily the various illustrated herbals that make it quite clear
that what they call potatoes are actually sweet potatoes.

Adamantius
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