>That would be Dositej Obradović, the great educator and, BTW, the guy who ended periodic famines in post-Ottoman Serbia by introducing potatos. Though, him being quite often in mid-XIX century Vienna, he may have picked the trick from some other literary acquaintance of his.
IIRC, I have seen it attributed to an author with a French name - but I can't remember the name.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
