[Sca-cooks] more about potatoes

["Ana L. Valdés"]

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