By SMILEY ANDERS
Advocate sportswriter
Published: Apr 11, 2011 - Page: 1B
The color purple
J.R. Madden says, “While working on Okinawa recently, I learned of the Okinawa purple sweet potato.
“According to my guide, during a famine some 600 years ago the purple sweet potato mystically appeared and saved the population of the island.
“The potato has a light brown skin and unusual purple flesh. It is nutritious and surprisingly sweet. Technically, it is a yam.
“I would have thought it would have long been used in south Louisiana to make purple-and-gold sweet potato pies during LSU football season.”
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