[Sca-cooks] Potatoes, revisited

[Jeff Gedney]

IIRC, Neither is North American.
The confusion seems to come from the fact that occasionally the Jerusalem
Artichoke was called a potato in some of the early descriptions of Virginia
and Florida.

I think the white potato was first encountered in Brazil, while the sweet
potato was first encountered before that, in the Caribbean and Central
America.

Alas I do not have my references with me.

I did come across a reference to the White potato being used in ruff
starching by the Elizabethans, because potato starch did not muddy the
colors ( colored starch such as purple, red and blue being something of a
fad for a short time in the 1580's )


Brandu


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 > Subject: [Sca-cooks] Potatoes, revisited
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 >    I just got into a small disagreement with a very charming man from the
 > Netherlands and now I'm wondering if I was correct in my
 > assertation that it
 > was sweet potatoes that came from South America to Europe and
 > white potatoes
 > that came from North America... so I searched up my "saved
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