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Strange Tales from the Pantry: 3: The Potato

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Six talks in which Sue Phillips muses on the curious lives of everyday edibles.
Eaten by the Elizabethans for its aphrodisiac qualities, banned by Scottish Puritans for failing to appear in the Bible and converted to snuff boxes by a one time Secretary of the Bank of England - there's more to potatoes than fish.

Contributors

Speaker:
Sue Phillips
Producer:
Amanda Mares
Source: Radio Times

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