[Sca-cooks] Mughal Feast

[Terry Decker]

Should you be interested, there is a description of a feast given by Asaph 
Khan for Ambassador Thomas Roe in 1617 to be found in Edward Terry's A 
Voyage to East-India.  The description contains the first reference to 
potatoes in India.  There is some academic argument as to whether these were 
yams or sweet potatoes.  I tend to think Terry knew what he was talking 
about and that he was referring to a dark red sweet potato that is grown on 
the Deccan Plateau.

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