SC - Apple cider

[Stefan li Rous]

> Nope, potatoes, both yams and regular Idaho potatoes are only native to
> the
> New World.  
> 
Sorry, yams are Old World.  Sweet potatoes and white potatoes are New World.

> Sir Walter Raleigh made it back, and because of his experiences with
> famine and poverty in Ireland, tried to get potatoes established as a
> food crop.  Whether he was using white potatoes, I don't know.  He got
> whatever he took back from Virginia, I remember that, but I think that in
> period, the potatoes were still a garden curiosity.  The peasants whose
> lot he was trying to improve were too suspicious of the food.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Allison
> 
IIRC, the current academic speculation is that Walter Raleigh was growing
sweet potatoes, a marketable commodity at the time, as one of the crops on
his Irish estates.

Bear
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