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Sorbian Potato Foodways

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Potatoes in soup, fried with quark and linseed oil, in dumplings, in pancakes, in a Sunday bake. ⚠ THEY ARRIVE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY under Prussian and Saxon pressure and on poor sandy soil become the food that made the region liveable — which is recent, not ancient.

Atlas — where and when

What is recorded

  • The potato reaches Lusatia in the eighteenth century and becomes the staple of poor sandy soil. Nothing potato-based here is older than that, however traditional it now feels. documented

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