The Skinny on Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes and yams are actually two very different vegetables.

While American grocery stores use the terms interchangeably, what they are always referring to is actually a sweet potato, not a yam. Garnet Yams and Jewel Yams, for instance, aren’t yams at all — they’re sweet potatoes! Candied Yams? Nope, sweet potatoes. Confused yet?

In fact, chances are that you’ll never accidentally buy an actual yam instead of a sweet potato at your local grocery. You can find “true” yams as well as other varities of sweet potatoes in Caribbean and Asian specialty grocery stores.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Resources!!

No one will download this but on the off chance that you'd like to spread the word about sweet potato rights, here's a way to print your own flyers!

Download the .pdf of the flyer here.

You can print this at home or at a print shop, like Kinko's, whatever. If you take it to Kinko's just be sure to tell them it's duplex, or double-sided printing. You can even choose cool paper there but I hate Kinko's so try not to give them too much money, but a little is okay.

If you print it at home, just take the stack of print outs after you've printed JUST PAGE ONE, hold them straight out, and turn them to your right so that the blank side is facing up. Then load them into the printer without changing the direction of the paper, and print JUST PAGE TWO.

Then just cut them twice between the margins, and there you go!! You're as big of a nerd as I am, hooray!

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