Cornwallis Yams

to Dine at the remote Colonial Inn in historic Hillsborough, North Carolina, when I was a student at the university in nearby Chapel Hill was to go back two hundred years, when Southern cuisine was just beginning to establish a unique identity. And to sample a dish such as these spicy Cornwallis yams was to get some idea just how different and exotic early cookery could be. Since genuine yams from South America and parts of Africa and Asia were no more available then than now (and I do wish