[Sca-cooks] musings on nightshade
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 29 17:23:38 PDT 2005
--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> He goes on to relate that Protestants refused to plant potatoes
> > and one reason was that they weren't mentioned in the Bible. Irish
> > Catholics got around this
> > by "sprinkling their seed potatoes with holy water and planting them on
> > Good Friday."
>
> Source?
It is hard to tell where he found that. His bibliography is huge [26 pages]. At the end of the
entire article he gives us these books for further reading. Since I have neither of them, I
can't tell you which provided what. Or if he found this someplace else entirely. I could tell
you to ask him, but that might take a ouija board or a medium.
Barehan, Lindsay
In Praise of the Potato. London, Grafton Books, 1991.
Robyns, Gwen
The Potato Cookbook. London, Pan Books, 1980.
You really need to buy his book. It is only $30 in paperback new. It is the winner of the James
Beard Foundation Book Award.
Huette
Remember that while money talks, chocolate sings.
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