Talk about simple beauty.
The Sweet Potato.
The Sweet Potato Patch
By: Kent Wrench
In 1543 DeSoto’s Spanish explorers found sweet potatoes growing in “Indian gardens” in what became Louisiana. The sweet potatoes were also cultivated in the Carolina area of North America before the European colonization.
In Colonial days sweet potatoes were an item of trade and were shipped from the Carolinas out to northern cities. The potato was an essential food for all the colonies in the days before modern means of preservation.
This root crop kept hunger from the doors of many generations of our ancestors. During the trying times of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars it was a staple food.
A Colonial physician recommended sweet potatoes especially for children because of the sweet potatoes’ value in combating childhood nutritional diseases.
I am honored to have played even a small role in precipitating this blog entry, as I of course learned to appreciate the simple elegance and nutritional home run of the sweet potato at the Electrolyte household last evening. It seems to have gotten crowded a bit off the shelf so to speak, but more recent, and more fancy entries, but it deserves to return to its prior place of prominence.
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