Potatoes were very critical in the Middle Ages, as a potato lover, it is difficult to tolerate that potatoes and sweet potatoes cannot be planted in the game, and I hope that the official can improve the crop. （ps. Hope to add religious elements, such as the construction of churches, monasteries, such buildings)
Hum… In Europe, potato cultivation began at the very end of the 18th century. Normal that she is not in the game.
but who knows what cultivation started when in this world of Farthest Frontier.
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Potatoes from Peru were taken to Europe in the 16th century. Peruvians began cultivating potatoes somewhere in the period 8,000 - 5,000 BCE. Never mind the age or origin of any veggie IRL, I am definitely in favor of having a wider range of veggies to choose from. After all, we’re just in a medieval European architectural and social model, not the actual thing itself. This world of FF could be anywhere, and have any veggie or fruit or tree in its agricultural repertoire.
Yes, but nobody want eat that till Parmentier made a trick.
Until 1770 the potato was considered dangerous for human consumption.
That was true – in France. Parmentier, probably a quite curious fellow, devised many wonderful recipes for potatoes. Not including vichyssoise, which is actually American, not French!
But in other locations, potatoes were eaten and the eaters survived.
However, there was one unfortunate incident in England in the 1580s, as legend has it, in which Sir Walter Raleigh allegedly brought potatoes to the court of Elizabeth I. He should have trimmed the plants, however, because the cooks had no clue how to cook potatoes. They threw out the tubers and served the stems and leaves, which are poisonous. So it wasn’t the potato that caused the gastrointestinal discomforts at Court; it was the lack of knowledge on the part of the cooks.
Tomatoes were also once considered poisonous, and were called “poison apples,” since many died after eating them. The problem was not the tomatoes, but the pewter ware they were served on. Tomatoes, being highly acidic, would absorb lead from the pewter, and it was actually lead poisoning that killed people who ate tomatoes in the old days. Pewter today does not have lead in it.
More on potatoes: History of Potatoes, Whats Cooking America
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