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Nov. 18—VARDAMAN — In 1996, the wives of three sweet potato farmers — Daphna Cook, Karen Wright and Barbara Williams — decided to start a business selling baked goods featuring products ...
Vardaman is located in one of Mississippi's top five sweet potato-producing counties. The Vardaman Sweet Potato Festival, also known as the National Sweet Potato Festival, is held there annually the entire first week in November. [4] [5] Vardaman has been proclaimed as the "Sweet Potato Capital of the World". [6]
(The variety 'Vardaman' is grown for both.) The first table below lists sweet potato cultivars grown for their edible roots; the second table lists cultivars bred as ornamental vines. In the first table, the Parentage column briefly explains how the sweet potato cultivar was bred. Sweet potato plants with desirable traits are selectively bred ...
The importance of sweet potato pie to African Americans has continued through generations. Culinary historian Michael Twitty grows his own sweet potatoes for his pie, an unbroken family tradition ...
4. The French Dip. Two different Los Angeles restaurants, Philippe's and Cole’s, claim to have invented the French Dip over 100 years ago, but they both know one thing: Sandwiches beg to be ...
The sweet potato industry readily accepts new cultivars, which leads to a quick shift in the most widely grown cultivar. Beauregard, released in 1987, is currently the dominant cultivar grown in the U.S. [ 13 ] Beauregard is considered to be moderately resistant to R. stolonifer although sporadic, heavy losses during shipping are known to occur.