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Your Quotes for 3 December 2005 - Potatoes

It was on this date in 1586 that Sir Thomas Herriot introduced potatoes to England. Herriot was an officer sailing with Sir Frances Drake as he harassed the Spanish fleet returning from the New World. After losing a battle, Drake had refit and resupplied at Cartegena (in what is Colombia today) and returned with samples and the method of cultivation. I'm glad he did.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
     - Louisa May Alcott, 1832 - 1888

Found a little patched-up inn in the village of Bulson.... Proprietor had nothing but potatoes; but what a feast he laid before me. Served them in five different courses: potato soup, potato fricassee, potatoes creamed, potato salad, and finished with potato pie. It may be because I had not eaten for 36 hours, but that meal seems about the best I ever had.
     - Douglas MacArthur, 1880 - 1964, in his World War I diary

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
     - Oprah Winfrey

Pray for peace and grace and spiritual food,
For wisdom and guidance, for all these are good,
But don't forget the potatoes.
     - John Tyler Pettee

Talk of joy: There may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
     - David Grayson

What I say is, if a man really like potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
     - Alan Alexander Milne, 1882 - 1956

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