Food from the Underground
People have always been fascinated by caves, grottoes, abysses. It is the front door to the underworld, which signifies not only the physical that is in the womb of the earth, but everything that is hidden, secret, and therefore a little evil. For example, potatoes have not been accepted in Europe for a long time, because the clergy thought it was a devilish tuber, always growing in the soil and devilishly inclined. In some languages, potatoes are still considered inseparably