SC - Russian dishes
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Mon Oct 25 13:02:08 PDT 1999
I'm sorry i seemed to have missed the beginig of this thread. Do we have
a date for the first use of potatoes for a human food in Europe?
Lady Katherine McGuire
>From: LrdRas at aol.com
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
>To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
>Subject: Re: SC - Russian dishes
>Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:57:55 EDT
>
>In a message dated 10/24/99 2:46:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ddfr at best.com
>writes:
>
><< Do we know how fast potatoes went into use in the countryside? My
>general
> impression is that where new food crops had a substantial advantage over
> old ones, as potatoes in some areas clearly did, they could go into use
> pretty fast. Peasants may be conservative, but they are also hungry.
> >>
>
>In general, from the time a new food crop is introduced until it can be
>said
>to be 'commonly' used appears to average about 20 years. Some crops become
>popular sooner than others (e.g., capsicums, tobacco and New World
>cucurbits). For other crops the time is inexplicably longer (e.g., tomatoes
>and sweet peppers). Some crops seem to have been cultivated commonly
>relatively early after their initial introduction but appear to have been
>used for animal food (e.g., potatoes and maize).
>
>In the case of potatoes, Russian peasants were apparently forced to grow
>and
>eat potatoes by their government.
>
>Ras
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