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Pondering Food

Sweet Potato

My wife loves these things. I like them a little. I’m acquiring a taste for them.

I stood in the kitchen today, drinking a cup of coffee. I saw a small pile of sweet potatoes in the basket in the corner. They’re roots, or tubers I suppose. Regardless, they’re ugly.

Somebody, somewhere, way back yonder in the history of man, had to decide to eat one. I wonder if anybody knows when it was decided that sweet potatoes were worth eating. Do people today still “test” new plant discoveries to see if they are edible? If so, how?

Oh well. So much for Sunday pondering. I’m hungry.

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2 Comments

  1. If you had my sweet-potato-blackeyed-pea soup, betcha you’d like them more. Then again, we’ve never met, so that’s presumptuous of me. Excellent drawing, nonetheless. Sweet potatoes make good models, ugly as they are.

    Posted on 19-Nov-06 at 8:22 pm | Permalink
  2. Hmmm…I’ll try it. Email me the recipe and I’ll email you the praline recipe I use. It’s a good one and fairly easy. My wife will love your soup even if I don’t. And I’ll look real good if I make it for her ;-)

    Posted on 19-Nov-06 at 8:27 pm | Permalink

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