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Article: PUT SWEET POTATOES ON HOLIDAY MENU.(Food)(Recipe)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 11, 1986
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Byline: Ellen Scott
Not until 1775 was the sweet potato known as anything other than the all- encompassing "potato." It was then that the Oxford English Dictionary made that distinction. At least, so say my food sources.
They offer other tidbits of fact or speculation: The Peruvian Indians cultivated sweet potatoes as long as the year 750. (Evidence: dried seeds found in archaelogical digs) Columbus first tasted them at a feast on the Caribbean Island of St. Thomas, compared them to large radishes, but nonetheless took plants back to Spain...
The sweet potato is a staple food in many of the Pacific islands and is said to account for 90 ...