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.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Flyers, flyers, flyers!!

I've begun to notice an increase in downloads of the Sweet Potato Awareness Flyer. Hooray!

To celebrate, I thought I'd give actual non-crappy instructions on how to print.

First of all, some of you may have an option on your printer to print DUPLEX. That means that it will automatically print page one, suck the sheet back into the printer, and print page two. No work required. Just poke around your settings to see if you have a DUPLEX setting.

If not, continue on:

• First, print page one -- JUST page one!
• Then simply turn the sheet 180 degrees, so that the end that came out of the printer is still closest the printer.
• Re-insert the sheet blank-side up without fiddling with it!
• Print ONLY page two.
• Cut into three flyers.
• Distrubute anonymously so no one thinks you're a loser like me!

Hooray!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

brilliant work! i shall start placing the flyers around my local markets in a subtle manner.

D. Sidhe said...

Found you through a Wikipedia link. This is great.

Emily B said...

Brilliant website, brilliant flyer. Thanks :)

Here's a link to an amazing Okinawan sweet potato and haupia pie:

http://onokinegrindz.typepad.com/ono_kine_grindz/2004/10/okinawan_sweet_.html

-Emily