And by golly, you’d be right. In the Renaissance that is, since potatoes were considered an aphrodisiac by doctors when they were first imported from America.
More about spud studs and the relationship between culture, history and food in this episode of Melvyn Bragg’s erudite and criminally addictive In Our Time.
Oh, and speaking about food, you will never hear a plummier accent than historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto’s, you could make a cake with it.
A Fistful of Olives 