Sweetpotato

Including orange-fleshed, boniato, Oriental, and moist white types

There is a luscious world of sweetpotatoes (yes, one word) out there beyond the orange-fleshed, and that is the first reason for this entry. The second is to implore you to believe that none of them are related to yam (seeplease) or potato.

I’ll start with the second reason, then get to eating. With Latin, it’s easy to explain: Ipomoea batatas originated in the New World, then traveled to the Old. So did Solanum tuberosum, but later. Dioscorea, a genus with Old World and New World members, has no connection to either.