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Article: One Potato, Sweet Potato
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 21, 1999
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As the first frost hits, the garden is taken down and the last of
its bounty is brought in. This is also the time to be harvesting
sweet potatoes, the bulbous roots of a beautiful vining plant that is
a potato in name only, quite unrelated to Ireland's legendary spud.
Most Americans are familiar with sweet potatoes, known in the
South as yams. The golden tubers are a welcome food as the first
chills of winter are felt and we yearn for warm, substantive meals.
The soft, honeyed flesh of sweet potatoes is sort of a bridge
between the world of "vegetables"--cabbage, tomatoes, peas, beans and
so on--and that of "starches"--potatoes, rice, pastas and bread.
Sweet potatoes also straddle courses, ...