There's a small, potato-like tuber available in southern Karnataka and Kerala. It's called koo'k in konkani and is a lot like a potato to eat. Anyonr heard of it? Is that a separate, indigenous species or is it a variant of the potato? Very tasty, though a proper pain to skin (you have to put them in a gunny sack and rub them in order to skin them.)
Narendra Shenoy On 5 Aug 2016 6:56 a.m., "Udhay Shankar N" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Bruce A. Metcalf < > [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > I'm curious to know how potatoes became part of Indian cuisine. Is this > >> Peruvian tuber replacing something else native to the subcontinent, or > is a > >> an addition not previously seen? > > > > > > This may help: > > > > http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp- > > sci-tech-and-agri/potato-historically-important- > > vegetable/article1447001.ece > > > > Oops, slipped by Sidin. >
