[Sca-cooks] Corn Bread

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In a message dated 7/5/01 3:22:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, spynnere at juno.com
writes:

>    As far as white potatoes go, there was an Englishman who started
>  growing them in 1619, somewhere in the British Isles as a form of
>  welfare, both to provide them with work as well as food.  This scheme,
>  I'm sure, is related to other schemes at the time involving straw hat
>  plaiting and knitting, to help poor people.
>
>     Elizabeth

Wasn't potatoes grown in Rus earlier to make that oh-so prized drink that we
called Vodka or was that later?

Misha