[Sca-cooks] musings on nightshade

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> > --- 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
> 
> 'Tis a wonder that the poor white potato draws such fire when the same could 
> be said of the sweet potato, tomato, chili pepper, etc.  It makes me think 
> the tales are apocryphal.  If it's not, then I shouldn't have to waken the 
> old boy from his final repose, it will be documented somewhere.
> 
> I haven't heard of the two books listed, but I would have chosen:
> 
> Salaman, Redcliffe N., The History and Social Influence of the Potato 

This is listed in his bibliography, so it must have been used.

and 
> Hawkes, J.G., The Potato:  Evolution, Biodiversity, and Genetic Resources, 
> which probably says something about the way each of us thinks.

This isn't in his bibliography.
> 
> I should break down and get The Oxford Companion to Food, but other 
> interesting tomes keep bubbling up to the top of the list.

Oh well ....

Huette

Remember that while money talks, chocolate sings.

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