Show sweet potato has hai high value on tropical menu in the tropics where the plant I 1 lives from one year to che next the sweet potato Is eaten ns as a substitute for bread and in latin america aberici it Is perhaps tile most important single item of food la in jamaica where sweet potatoes and lama are the principal item of native food the vines tines areklet run on poles and the big fleshy roots are carefully re moved from time to time without disturbing the th evines vines the sweet potato Is na exceed angly important crop in our southern era states where it I 1 second only to the common potato yania yams and jerseys are the two common varieties to be found in the united states yams bams are are best candled candied i but the jer aej fey ls Is the best all around variety for mashing baking or combining with other foods Yam sare are larie large with brilliant salmon colored flesh while the ahe jerseys are i smaller maller with light lemon tinted flesh |