Friday, Feb 13th, 2015

Fun with Food IX. Good luck with this one, it is "berry" easy. Happy Friday 13th!  

You know where the answers are...

73. Campari tomatoes
74. Celery
75. Sweet Potatoes*
76. Wild Blackberries
77.  Blackberries
78.Red Raspberries
79. Golden Raspberries
80. Chandler Strawberries
81. EverSweet Strawberries

*Sweet potatoes, as a food crop, have been grown for over 5000 years and grow across the globe. Sweet Potatoes are not potatoes at all. They are members of the Morning Glory family. Athough the soft, orange sweet potato is often called a "yam" in parts of North America, the sweet potato is botanically very distinct from a genuine yam (Dioscorea), which is native to Africa and Asia and belongs to the monocot family Dioscoreaceae. To add to the confusion, a different crop plant, the oca, Oxalis tuberosa (a species of woodbind), is called a "yam" in many parts of Polynesia, including New Zealand. To prevent confusion, the United States Department of Agriculture requires sweet potatoes labeled as "yams" to also be labeled as "sweet potatoes"which are recognized as the state vegetable of North Carolina.    (NC is my home state and I grew acres of organic sweet potatoes on my farm there. ~Suzanne)