We harvested out sweet potatoes over a month ago, laying
them out on my workbench to “cure” and then storing them in our
“root cellar”. There are a LOT of sweet potatoes in there. Maybe more than enough.
I made sweet
potato fries (my favorite way to eat sweet potatoes), roasted sweet potatoes,
and sweet potato chips, but there are generally a limited number of customers
in my family when it comes to sweet potatoes. Most everybody will eat the
fries, but after that the audience drops substantially to about two. This is a
sadness because I’m a big fan of sweet potatoes. In fact, I’m a superfan of this superfood. But I know someone who is more like a KING of sweet potatoes than a
mere fan, like me. So, dear readers, let me introduce you to Mr. Jack.
Jack is a retired professor of Towson State University and runs
the pool where my children have grown up. He not only makes careful use of the
TIME OUT chair and teaches killer water aerobics, he also created and hosts the
Pennsylvania Sweet Potato Festival (with the help of his amazing wife Bev).
Jack knows more about sweet potatoes than anyone in my world, so rather than
write a sub-par post on the beauty of the sweet potato (which I’ve done before), I interviewed Jack!
