[Sca-cooks] potatoes in Europe in 1567

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

I'm not sure which you were responding to here,  but my own remark was not 
in regard to the Middle Ages. "Pomme de terre" was  used in the seventeenth 
century to refer to the Jerusalem artichoke.

Nos  Latins appellent ceste herbe pomme de terre); e) 1655 désigne le 
topinambour (N.  DE BONNEFONS, Les délices de la campagne, 2e éd., p.111, d'apr. 
R. ARVEILLER ds  Fr. mod. t.18, 1950, p.237: Des taupinambous, pomme de 
terre), cf. Trév. 1771,  qui, s.v. pomme, renvoie pour pomme de terre à 
topinambour; v. aussi FEW t.20,  p.82b; 2. «tubercule comestible du solanum 
tuberosum» [1716 d'apr. BL.-W.1-2]  1750 

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It turns out, in fact, that *malum terrae*  referred to a variety of 
things, going all the way back to Antiquity.

Jim  Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

The lost cheeses of Medieval  France
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/03/old-regime-cheese-1-lost-cheeses-of.htm
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In  a message dated 3/15/2014 8:03:11 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com writes:
Since Jerusalem artichokes (or sunchokes) are  New World, probably not.
Ranvaig

>"Pomme de terre" referred to  these before it was used for the potato.
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