[Sca-cooks] New World Foods / potato in Rumpolt?

Jane Tremaine vikinglord at cox.net
Sun Apr 27 16:57:46 PDT 2008


I will see if he will poist a copy, this is a modern paper.
Jana
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From: "Johnna Holloway" <johnnae at mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] New World Foods / potato in Rumpolt?


> What research paper? Are the Author, title and date available?
> What do you mean by "the Daphne of France" ?
>
> Johnnae
>
> Jane Tremaine wrote:
>> I have read a research paper showing that the Daphne of France ate 
>> Potatoes
>> prepared just like Truffles and in Germany they were eaten regularly. 
>> But
>> in England only one guy had them in his hothouse and they were considered
>> odd.. all of this is in the 16th century.  My point being to say in 
>> general
>> a food was not eaten in our time period is a misnomer and should be
>> carefully researched for differences in regional preferences.
>>
>> Jana
>>
>>
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