|
|
Article: SWEET POTATO SUITE
- Article from:
- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- October 22, 2003
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 2003 Dayton Daily News. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
There's a bushel basket of options for cooks
Forget the debate about the difference between a sweet potato and
a yam. What's worth knowing is that not all sweet potatoes are
created equal, and that's important in this season, the only time
when local farmers harvest their sweet potato crop.
Farmer Mike Brown, who sells at multiple farm markets, raises 11
varieties of sweet potatoes. While the heavy summer rains produced
smaller sweet potatoes - it's a vegetable that doesn't like wet feet -
the warm, sunny days of the second week of this month provided ideal
days for harvesting and curing the crop. Curing is necessary to bring
out the sweetness.
And there are choices never found at ...