Sweet Potatoes - From Tudor Aphrodisiac to Shakespeare's Stage

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Sweet Potatoes - From Tudor Aphrodisiac to Shakespeare's Stage

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Priya Deshmukh explores how Renaissance Europe transformed the sweet potato from Indigenous staple into aphrodisiac obsession. From Henry VIII's spiced pies to Shakespeare's bawdy jokes and John Gerard's herbalist claims about "procuring bodily lust," this episode uncovers the hilarious and troubling history of colonial food appropriation, Tudor anxieties, and one remarkably resilient root vegetable.

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