Is Ireland a Food Culture?

The poor people of ireland subsided lusively on potatoes for quite a long time. And this was actually fine, because potatoes are an entire food stuff. But if that's how a vast majority of the population are behaving, exclusively eating just potatoes, then you're going to lose folk knowledge. You're going to losing recipes in the same way that you lose access to the ingredients of those recipes. For the average irish peasant, you're not getting cess to education or the ability to write and keep recipes. So i'm sure il larisit at last. It wasn't bea because historically, we've all as had ready access to fresh ingredients.