[Sca-cooks] more about potatoes

[Elaine Koogler]

Ana L. Valdés wrote:
> I have an wonderful anecdote about potatoes, planes, Andes and a lot
> of odd things...I hope messier Duriel has became a more familiar with
> my poor English syntax :)
> I will try to do my best...kind of difficult when I must decide in
> which of my third simultaneous languages I must express myself...
> Now we go, some years ago I was on a plane between Stockholm and Paris
> and the plane was delayed because a passager was late. Of course she
> was the one who should sit besides my siege. She come, a tallish
> woman, dressed in a afternoon gown with jewels, too much overdressed
> to sit on a plane 10 a' clock in the morning.
> She apologied very formal and told me she was coming from a breakfast
> meeting with the Swedish king, that's because she was so overdressed.
> I nodded and she continued to tell me she was French but had Swedish
> parents, that was the reason she spoke a very archaic Swedish, as the
> Swedish cook at the Muppets crossed with Bergmans early movies.
> We chatted all the trip, I am a writer and is always attracted to the
> odd characters, tha'ts maybe a history there.
> She and her husband, a wealthy French scientist, were at the board of
> "L' Institute de la Pomme de Terre". What??? The Institute of the
> Potatoe was based in Peru and in it's board sat the King of Sweden,
> one of the countries with highest potatoes consumtion in the world,
> the president of Irland and a lot of other dignitaries, the US too.
> The board and the Institute had as goal to grow and preserve some of
> the more than 350 potatoes sorts which was cultivated by the Incas
> before the Spanish demolished their culture. (Spain was too at the
> board of the Institute, but they were demanded to open all the
> sessions saying loud "Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, why we were so dumb???".
> Ana
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That's so cool!!  Thanks for sharing...

Kiri (who read and understood your English with no difficulty)