[Sca-cooks] more about potatoes

[ysabeau]

~LOL~ I love your story! Thank you for sharing...and I understood 
you fine...but then I taught English as a Second Language for 
years and got used to translating. Your English is better than my 
skills in any language other than English. 

Ysabeau


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Ana_L._Valdés" <agora at algonet.se>
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 19:52:57 +0200

>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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