Throughout history, people have kept or even stolen old, wrinkled vegetables for their health.
In 1897 Mr. Burgess, a Labor Clerk at Oxford University, donated two dried potatoes to the Pitt Rivers Museum. He usually kept them in his pocket. They were the ultimate “jacket” potatoes. The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford is dedicated to categorizing and displaying a “democracy of objects” not by time or nation but by… Read More »