Sweet Potatoes from California on the Left & my son's Homegrown 'Radiance' Sweet Potatoes to the Right! When I buy sweet potatoes-- the ones with the orange flesh-- I generally call them 'yams' and they generally come from California. (My son was very serious about their being sweet potatoes-- here is information about the difference between a sweet potato and a yam ). Sweet potatoes figure in a lot of Southern U.S. cookery, and have made their way into Canada over the years of my adulthood. I do believe that you could buy them in a can (yuck) when I was a child, but that was about it. In Northern Saskatchewan, where potatoes were always white. I remember eating them caked with brown sugar. The taste of the sweet potato was unfamiliar and not as comforting as the good old "Irish" or white potato I grew up with, so the sweet potato with the addition of brown sugar just seemed... disgusting. This beautiful orange flesh makes me call this a...
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