Why do Russians eat potatoes without the skin?

[Toman, Jindrich]

Are there any serious French recipes based on unpeeled potatoes?
Apologies if this reveals a lack of exposure to haute cuisine...
Jindrich



On 2/7/10 2:04 PM, "Tatiana Filimonova" <t-filimonova at NORTHWESTERN.EDU> wrote:

I think Michele offered a very good explanation. It was dangerous to eat
unpeeled potatoes because of fertilizers, rot, and dirt. If I am not
mistaken Victor Astafiev as well as some Gulag authors wrote about people
getting severe food poisoning because of eating unpeeled potatoes (in the
army and the camps respectively).

Tatiana

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