SC - potatoes
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Mon Oct 5 21:15:36 PDT 1998
> 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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