Heavy Lifting: The Potato, the Poor, and Pleasure in Ireland
In this long post (you’ve been warned), I’m going to try to imagine the potato cuisine of the Irish poor in the century before the Great Famine of 1845-52. In…
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The Chinese as potato eaters? Oh yes, if Ms. Feng, former potato farmer turned potato promoter and the Chinese government have their way, according to a couple of fascinating pieces…
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Here’s a lovely description of a small farmer’s meal about a hundred and fifty years ago in north Wiltshire (Southwest England). It occurs in the novel, Amaryllis at the Fair,…
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