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04-10-2006, 10:12 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Sacha[_1_]
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Sweet Potatoes
On 4/10/06 00:02, in article
, "Mike Lyle"
wrote:
George.com wrote:
[...]
Yams are a tropical vegetable however sweet potatoes are not related to
yams.
[...]
But note that in some American recipes "yam" means "sweet potato", not
"yam".
Doesn't yam come from Calocasia and make what the Hawaians call 'poi' -
disgusting to the untrained palate but nostalgically yearned for by exiles?
Or is that Alocasia - and what's the difference?!
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