Grandma’s Delicacies – Yummy Yammy
About Sweet Potatoes Common Name:Sweet Potato or Yam Scientific Name: Ipomoea batatas Climate: warm or cool areas Topography: mostly in mountainous region Types: red, yellow, and purple Origin: South America
Types of Sweet Potatoes in Taiwan Types of Sweet Potatoes Tips for choosing yummy yams
Yam Production in Taiwan Increasing? Decreasing?
Production Every decade in Taiwan (tons) 1965~ ~1994 (AD)
Before Before Christ Mainland China in Ming Dynasty Occupied by Holland Occupied by Japan After Taiwan Restored
Early food with yams
When you were young, was sweet potato porridge your main course?
Do you agree sweet potato porridge become your main course?
Now
Now food with yams
Have you ever stolen sweet potatoes when being young?
Do you think Sweet Potato is delicious?
Which food do you think that can represent Taiwan’s spirit?
What role do you think that yam plays?
Sweet Potatoes in Chinese 蕃 = foreign / uncouth 薯 = plant with tuberous root
Literature of Sweet Potatoes 蕃薯不怕落土爛 只求枝葉代代湠 The specialty of Sweet Potatoes The spirit of Taiwanese people
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