[Sca-cooks] 1637 Hosokawa Sansai Kaiseki Meal

[Craig Jones.]

>Gaylin Walli wrote:
>>
>> * NOTE: Before someone gets all happy about potatoes in near-period
>> Japan I'd like to point out that we have no idea what the original
>> source document says and we're relying on Ms. Cort's translation,
>> presumably. It could feasibly be a potato like we're used to today
>> given the 1637 date alone, but we don't know for sure. -- Iasmin
>
>Taro, perhaps?

I was thinking perhaps of Chinese Mountain Medicine Yam, Dioscorea perhaps?  Or
maybe one of the other Chinese yams?

Drake.

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