SC - Yams---was: visitor to list

[Valkyrie de Minato Neshoba]

In most of the grocery stores here we have both sweet potatoes 
and yams available in the produce.  I do wonder if the yams are 
really yams though.  How would I tell?
Thanks
Val

On 31 Oct 00, at 17:50, Wanda Pease wrote:

> Only if the Yams aren't misleadingly labeled "sweet potatoes" and are the
> real thing either from Africa, or descended from real African Yams.  I
> know that the Africans had Yams, but does that mean they were known in
> Europe? Would they be known in North Africa?  I realize that Spain and
> Portugal had trade with the Atlantic African coast even before the
> rounding of Cape Horn, but did they import African Yams?
> 
> Regina Romsey
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> > [mailto:owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Collette S. Waters
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 4:20 PM To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> > Subject: SC - Re: visitor to list
> >
> >
> > If she can find yams  those will work.
> > Begga
> >
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