Chips as Aphrodisiacs?
Chips & Sea Holly: the stuff of seduction. Falstaff asks for the heavens to open and rain aphrodisiacs on his head. This short blog explores the changing status of potatoes as an exotic luxury and the sea holly as a high status treat in Shakespeare’s world to their mundane and forgotten virtues in our world.
To celebrate the 400 years since the publication of the first folio I am aiming to publish a weekly nature blog and to post a daily species quote until November 2024.
