Oh that thing. Steam it and then fry it up with a salt + chilly
powder rub sounds just as nice an idea to me.
Something to keep in mind is that many "revolutionary" histories are
overblown[0]. The "traditional" cuisine of the area where I now live
is potato-heavy, but there's still a layer of turnip/parsnip/radish
recipes[1] which presumably conserves the uses of locally-available
tubers in the pre-potato period.
-Dave
[0] eg. recording numbers in roman format but having one's slaves
calculate with pebbles on a decimal place-value counting board is not
*that* different from recording numbers in arabic format, but having
one's phone calculate with electrical charges in a binary place-value
format.
[1] I was amused to encounter these in restaurants, as I'd first read
of them in ancient roman texts.
