[Sca-cooks] Fw: [STEPS] Potatoes? Period?

[Vladimir Armbruster]

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From: Leon Kemp <kempl at cadvision.com>
To: Steps <steps at antir.sca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:53 PM
Subject: RE: [STEPS] Potatoes? Period?


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> Checkout these links for a brief history of potatoes.
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> http://www.sunspiced.com/phistory.html
> http://collections.ic.gc.ca/potato/history/migration.asp
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> Yes,history shows that they were being grown in Europe in the 1550s.
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> So if you are a Saxon....probably not period, but Sir Francis Drake is
known
> to have grownthem during the Elizabethan era.
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> Kiersten
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