In Zambia, say, a poor person is defined as someone who cannot afford to buy at least two to three plates of nshima (a kind of porridge), a sweet potato, a few spoonfuls of oil, a handful of groundnuts and a couple of teaspoons of sugar each day, plus a banana and a chicken twice a week.
It captures something essential about Prime Burger, a shopworn space which was last updated in the 1960s: It represents not just a business but a sort of home, to loyal staff like the ageless Eddie Adams, who baked there for 63 years and produced a sweet potato pie that could make hard men weep, and to generations of lost-and-gone New Yorkers like me.
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Ms. Eason makes a really good sweet potato pie.
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She noticed that if she dipped a sand-covered sweet potato in the water, she could clean it much faster.
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"The sweet potato is a woman's crop, a security crop, " Wambugu says.
Into the sweet potato she spliced a gene from the pyrethrum, a white flower whose ingredients are fatal to insects and the feathery mottle virus.
On a continent where population growth outstrips food supply growth by 1% a year, Wambugu's modified sweet potato offers tangible hope.
Into the sweet potato she has spliced in a gene from the pyrethrum, a white flower whose ingredients are fatal to insects and the feathery mottle virus.
Riding through the streets of the Condesa neighbourhood, for example, you encounter roving marimba players and the sweet potato vendor who pushes around a mobile oven with an ear-piercing steam whistle to herald his arrival.
The introduction of the sweet potato in China helped lead to a population boom.
Recent crowd pleasers include korokke (Japanese-style sweet potato cakes), casado (a Costa Rican meal of steak, rice, black beans, plantains and salad) and chicama cerviche de mero (grouper cerviche with passion fruit, japanese cucumber, red pepper, guava, red onion and tiger milk).
One night for dinner in the sand she made me (and a few others, but it felt personal) lobster with sweet potato salad and roasted beet quinoa with pink tahini dressing.
For a main dish, the duck curry is a wonderful collision of succulent duck leg, crispy fried pork, sweet potato, green beans and pineapple.
And when it's time to combine the two, the chef suggests straining the sweet potato mixture by mashing it down into the strainer with a metal ladle, to keep any chunky bits from getting into the pie.
Each dish includes a pork, beef or vegetarian sausage, a warm homemade bread bun and simple but well-executed sides including coleslaw, potato tots or sweet potato fries.
Another measure of changing attitudes: in bus queues or at sweet-potato stands, people are readier to chat to foreigners than they were just a few years ago.
He offers me broths of freshly harvested sweet-potato greens and baby bok choy, and though the air we breathe in here is itself a kind of broth, I sip them gratefully.
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