SC - New World Foods-list
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Fri Feb 11 09:19:38 PST 2000
Bear wrote:
>Yams are of African origin and were probably brought into Europe early in
>the 14th Century.
Yes, but what Americans call yams are of New World origin. African
yams are a whole different vegetable.
Both what Americans call Sweet Potatoes (with deep orangy yellow
flesh) *AND* what Americans call Yams (with pale yellow flesh) are
just two varieties of the same plant, both from the New World, with
flesh of differing shades of yellow and purplish, mostly smooth skin,
both Ipomoea batatas.
What are called yams that are from Africa is something one rarely
finds in America, and is a tuber with white flesh and rough cocoa
brown skin, and are from a number of different plants within genus
Dioscorea.
Anahita al-shazhiya
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