Can You Tell Your Jewels From Your Garnets? A Guide to Common Supermarket Sweet Potato Varieties to Know and Love.
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Produce Geek's Guide to Sweet Potatoes!
Elazar Sontag is a writer from Oakland California living in Brooklyn. He is a contributor to the Washington Post New York Magazine Vice and more.
There are very few foods I can’t live without. I grew up with vegetarian parents so I can go quite a while without meat. I’ve given up sugar for months and taken long (okay long) breaks from drinking. But if you told me I could never eat a sweet potato again I don’t know how I would live. After all it’s my favorite fall vegetable.
I’ve long believed that the sweet potato is a perfect food: filling flavorful easy to make and according to the internet relatively nutritious. While our site has some really excellent sweet potato recipes I’ve always preferred to eat them plain. I roast them in a blazing hot oven despite science (and our cooking team) advising against this until the skin turns to crinkly leather and the inside is a sticky steaming mess of bubbling sugars and chewy flesh. There have been entire years where I religiously roasted two sweet potatoes every night eating one piping hot from the oven and leaving the other in the fridge overnight. I eat them cold for breakfast the next morning by which time they’ve developed a delicious custard-like texture.
