The Lowly Sweet Potato May Unlock America's Past

The Times Online ^ | 3-24-2008 | Norman Hammond

[kingattax]

are we talking about the ‘typical’ lowly sweet potato here ?

[blam]

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DNA from chicken bone shows Polynesians 'found' South America

[Poetgal26]

mmmmmm sweet potatoes with melted butter and brown sugar please...

[EggsAckley]

Yum!
Sometime try it with butter and sour cream. Yummy.

[Poetgal26]

Seriously? ...hmmmm I might try it but sounds gross lol

[EggsAckley]

The sourness of the cream makes the potato taste even sweeter.

Same thing works with putting salt on grapefruit.

(but then again, I AM a little strange) Heheheh.

[OB1kNOb]

My brother who is diabetic and has done a lot of research on foods safe for diabetics, says the sweet potato is about the closest thing to a perfect food one can eat.

[Poetgal26]

No hun, I am strange too lol
But salt on grapefruit, yucky....

I tried to view your page and it didn’t work

[Neidermeyer]

Same thing works with putting salt on grapefruit.
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Filipinos put salt on mango’s ... I’m assuming you mean a fully ripe sweet pink or yellow grapefruit..

[Repeal The 17th]

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[sportutegrl]

I yam what I yam.

[kingattax]

LOL....good one

[blam]

"My brother who is diabetic and has done a lot of research on foods safe for diabetics, says the sweet potato is about the closest thing to a perfect food one can eat."

That explains my neighbors habit of ordering sweet potatos everytime we go to dinner together...he's diabetic.

[Irish Eyes]

My brother who is diabetic and has done a lot of research on foods safe for diabetics, says the sweet potato is about the closest thing to a perfect food one can eat.

That is great news. I have been looking for a site that would list things like that. My husband is a diabetic and I know that other types of potato are not good.

[monkapotamus]

"mmmmmm sweet potatoes with melted butter and brown sugar please..."

I'm eating them right now with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and lemon zest, baked.

[Gator113]

I too think it’s good.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=PCTA,PCTA:2006-24,PCTA:en&q=sweet+potato+recipes+butter+and+sour+cream

[pabianice]

One of the enduring mysteries of world history is whether the Americas had any contact with the Old World before Columbus, apart from the brief Viking settlement in Newfoundland.

This article is at least 20 years out of date. There is co0nclusive proof that Europeans settled in America between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, bringing with them the Clovis Point. The same technology is found in Spain and France from the same period.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks Blam. The one convincing piece of evidence for pre-Hispanic contact has been the humble sweet potato, which is of tropical American origin but widely cultivated across the Pacific islands. Until a few years ago it was assumed that this was the result of Spanish transmission, dating to the early colonial period, but archaeological discoveries in the Cook Islands show this to be wrong: excavations at Mangaia yielded carbonised remains of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) dating to AD1000, five centuries before Europeans entered the Pacific Ocean. The question then arose as to whether the diffusion of this useful crop was the result of Amerindians sailing west to Polynesia, as the late Thor Heyerdahl always claimed, end. ;') To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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