[Sca-cooks] potatoes in Europe in 1567

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The Spanish or Portuguese academics (I forget which, I don't have the paper accessible at the moment) believed that they were white (ordinary) potatoes.

Thorvald


----- Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Thorvald said:
> <<< The current earliest iron-clad reference to potatoes in Europe is 1567, the potatoes being shipped from the Canaries to Antwerp.  The Netherlands were then under Spanish/Habsburg control, with a number of the governors being Austrian.  This gives an example of a *possible* quick route, via the Netherlands, from Spanish territory to Austria. >>>
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> Thanks. Any indication of whether these were white or sweet potatoes?
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>   Stefan
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