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Heavy Lifting: The Potato, the Poor, and Pleasure in Ireland

By Rachel Laudan January 19, 2017 English Food, Food History, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens, Taste 19 Comments
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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