SC - Period Food at 12th Night 2000

[RANDALL DIAMOND]

Arent girasols native to the american east coast? that would fit the
bill of 'virginia potato"
margali
[yummmm, jerusalem artichoke-I wonder how they would be for latkes?]


Bear said:
Although Gerard described the "Viginia potato," it appears to have been
a
very recent import from South America, either left by Drake when he
rescued
the survivors of the Roanoke Colony during his return voyage to England
after the sack of Cartegena (1586) or, more likely, brought to England
by
him, then re-introduced to Virginia in 1587 when Richard Grenville
re-established the colony.


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