[Sca-cooks] Recipe to cure leprosy

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Tue Oct 13 18:11:00 PDT 2015


Those are thought to be sweet potatoes.
See Joan Fitzpatrick's awesome Shakespeare and the Language of Food (2011) for
a learned discussion of this phrase.

Johnnae

On Oct 13, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Daniel And elizabeth phelps <dephelps at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> There is a line in one of Shakespeare's plays "The Merry Wives of Windsor" "Let the sky rain potatoes"
> http://www.iloveshakespeare.com/blog/let-the-sky-rain-potatoes/
> 
> Daniel
> 



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