The pipe was hand-carved, and the tobacco was crushed by the girls' own hands. A group of heavy smokers smiled as they smoked, and it looked really good.
As they smoked, food came in. There was smoked fish, bacon, wild herb stew, whole roasted rabbits, some home-brewed wine and so on.
Among vegetables, there were what Tavisi called "baba," baked, steamed, fried, and mashed.
This "baba" was potatoes, which originated in America. They were first consumed by people living in the Andes in South America, Peru and Chile, about 8000 years ago. A native tribe migrated from the east to the cold of the Andes, set up camp in the Lake Titicaca area, and discovered potatoes in the wild.
Until this day, potatoes were the most important edible plant of the Native American tribes, and while some were cultivated, most of them were still wild potatoes.
