Mache Potetesse
The French were resitant to the potato. The frequent dearhs of wheat during the eighteenth century resulted in bundreds of thousands of deaths from starvation. In spite of this, zhe major of Frenchmen could not be convinced that the potato was not poisonous.
It was not until, in 1814, Antoine Beauvilliers published a cookbook extolling the virtues of such English dishes as Woiches Rebettes, Plomb Poutingue and Mache Potetessethat the French came to understand the English predilection for potatoes. But a century or more from neglecting the vegetable had cost France the live of many thousands of peasants who succumbed to starvation rather than risk the poisonous or leprous ´spud`.
It was not until, in 1814, Antoine Beauvilliers published a cookbook extolling the virtues of such English dishes as Woiches Rebettes, Plomb Poutingue and Mache Potetessethat the French came to understand the English predilection for potatoes. But a century or more from neglecting the vegetable had cost France the live of many thousands of peasants who succumbed to starvation rather than risk the poisonous or leprous ´spud`.
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