"The highland Andean Indians grew at least three hundred varieties of potatoes. Like maize and tobacco, potatoes were carried to Europe by Spanish conquistadors. Europeans spurned the new root crop at first. Folktales alleged that the misshapen potato caused leprosy. Some Russian Orthodox priests proclaimed potato eating a sin and named it the "devil's plant." Prussian servants threatened to change masters if fed potatoes. For two centuries the potato was little more than a curiosity, grown in some monastery gardens and by some gourmets as a novelty food. Cultural resistance to the potato was so strong that farmers would willingly endure repeated famine rather than change their diet.
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From Ireland, potato agriculture spread eastward across Britain and into the Low Countries. The great economist Adam Smith drew attention to the potato in his Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, and predicted it would feed large numbers of working people, making men stronger and women more beautiful. By the late eighteenth century, Frederick the Great of Prussia was forcing his subjects to grow potatoes or starve. Other monarchs did the same. Their advisers had learned that potatoes yielded more nutrition for less work per hectare than any grain crop, over a growing season of three to four months as opposed to almost double that for cereals. Potatoes grew in a wider variety of soils, needed less attention after planting, and, unlike oats and wheat, did not require lengthy grinding and processing. They could be stored for up to a year and made into bread or all manner of different dishes.
Once adopted, the new crop rapidly became a staple. Between 1693 and 1791, grain consumption in Flanders alone fell from 758 grams per person per day to 475 grams as potatoes replaced about 40 percent of cereal consumption. Nutritional diseases declined throughout Europe. By the 1830s northern Europe had become a major economic force, partly because the potato had reduced the famine cycles so typical of the Little Ice Age. In France, for example, there were 111 famines between 1371 and 1791, sixteen of them in the eighteenth century alone. The potato effectively eliminated this catastrophic cycle. The productivity and reliability of potato farming helped increase Europe's population and freed more workers for nonagricultural employment --such as manning the factories of the Industrial Revolution."
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We have a few books on home medicine and nursing, as well as on herbal stuff. Many of the older ones list the Devil's Apple, since it is a member of the nightshade family it is most obviously a poison.
but today I can't imagine living in Italy without it.
So much of our food today is based on the little red citrus.
I love them, plus they are pushed for all men as protection from prostate cancer.
We have a plant here in Alaska known as "Devil's Club" which is very spiny on the stalks, and, I made the mistake of grabbing for one when slipping and falling down a steep and wet embankment. Ouch! Plus, a few of them as I fell slid right between my legs on the way down. NO FUN that...
But, I know this isn't what you are after, but I know I curse that danged stuff as "being from the pit of hell on that day!
Yes Onions are served there but the potato is too but you know that too
But about LCM I bet he telling them any food that cost over .50 cent a day to eat is a sin because the less they spend on food the more LCM can but in his bank but that just the way I feel about LCM maybe I right maybe I am wrong
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"The highland Andean Indians grew at least three hundred varieties of potatoes. Like maize and tobacco, potatoes were carried to Europe by Spanish conquistadors. Europeans spurned the new root crop at first. Folktales alleged that the misshapen potato caused leprosy. Some Russian Orthodox priests proclaimed potato eating a sin and named it the "devil's plant." Prussian servants threatened to change masters if fed potatoes. For two centuries the potato was little more than a curiosity, grown in some monastery gardens and by some gourmets as a novelty food. Cultural resistance to the potato was so strong that farmers would willingly endure repeated famine rather than change their diet.
.....
From Ireland, potato agriculture spread eastward across Britain and into the Low Countries. The great economist Adam Smith drew attention to the potato in his Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, and predicted it would feed large numbers of working people, making men stronger and women more beautiful. By the late eighteenth century, Frederick the Great of Prussia was forcing his subjects to grow potatoes or starve. Other monarchs did the same. Their advisers had learned that potatoes yielded more nutrition for less work per hectare than any grain crop, over a growing season of three to four months as opposed to almost double that for cereals. Potatoes grew in a wider variety of soils, needed less attention after planting, and, unlike oats and wheat, did not require lengthy grinding and processing. They could be stored for up to a year and made into bread or all manner of different dishes.
Once adopted, the new crop rapidly became a staple. Between 1693 and 1791, grain consumption in Flanders alone fell from 758 grams per person per day to 475 grams as potatoes replaced about 40 percent of cereal consumption. Nutritional diseases declined throughout Europe. By the 1830s northern Europe had become a major economic force, partly because the potato had reduced the famine cycles so typical of the Little Ice Age. In France, for example, there were 111 famines between 1371 and 1791, sixteen of them in the eighteenth century alone. The potato effectively eliminated this catastrophic cycle. The productivity and reliability of potato farming helped increase Europe's population and freed more workers for nonagricultural employment --such as manning the factories of the Industrial Revolution."
just some help but there is more on it can I can list
Look for the year without summer as its called
thank you
with love and a holy kiss blowing your way Roy
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We have a few books on home medicine and nursing, as well as on herbal stuff. Many of the older ones list the Devil's Apple, since it is a member of the nightshade family it is most obviously a poison.
but today I can't imagine living in Italy without it.
So much of our food today is based on the little red citrus.
I love them, plus they are pushed for all men as protection from prostate cancer.
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We have a plant here in Alaska known as "Devil's Club" which is very spiny on the stalks, and, I made the mistake of grabbing for one when slipping and falling down a steep and wet embankment. Ouch! Plus, a few of them as I fell slid right between my legs on the way down. NO FUN that...
But, I know this isn't what you are after, but I know I curse that danged stuff as "being from the pit of hell on that day!
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coolchef1248 @adelphia.net
aahhh
the potato equals.... voldka!
thank god for the devils plant!!!!
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Out There
coolchef - could it be Absolut Devils Plant?
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Belle
I'll drink to that!!
I'm with you, Chef!
Or was it something like this?
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Beloved Galen
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The Devil's Apple hope it was not a sin to eat it too
thank you
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Beloved Jonny Lingo
God loves you my dear friend
your day with the Devil's Club sounds like it was a bad day
thank you
with love and a holy kiss blowing your way Roy
Beloved coolchef1248 @adelphia.net
God loves you my dear friend
potato equals.... voldka ----I did not know that
thank you my dear friend
with love and a holy kiss blowing your way Roy
Beloved Out There
maybe it could we will have to wait for the coolchef
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thank you my dear friend
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Beloved Belle
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I love that Now I know more about the beginning
thank you my dear friend
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dmiller
Served with Burger King?
Devil's plant??
Onions!!
:biglaugh:
(Psssst -- whatcha think, lcm???) ;)
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Beloved David Miller
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Yes Onions are served there but the potato is too but you know that too
But about LCM I bet he telling them any food that cost over .50 cent a day to eat is a sin because the less they spend on food the more LCM can but in his bank but that just the way I feel about LCM maybe I right maybe I am wrong
have a great day my friend
thank you
with love and a holy kiss blowing your way Roy
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