Hello, everyone, On our trip to China, Kathleen and I got to eat sweet potato greens. It's a typical vegetable in southern China, where the warm, wet climate is friendly to rice, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and grapefruit. When we got back, Kathleen told Joan of One Straw Farm about this. Last week, she brought some sweet potato greens to the market and marked it up as a new item on the chalkboard. The greens sold well, people liked them, so this week, she came back with more sweet potato greens. They taste a lot like spinach, and we like them. In China, they serve them stir-fried with garlic.
Last weekend in the Sun, a reader sent a question to the garden column asking whether you could eat sweet potato greens. The column replied that you can, and that they are very nutitious, which is what we were told in China. We saw Chef John Shields at Gertrude's a few weeks ago, and told him about the sweet potato greens we had in China. He had never heard of eating them but wanted to try them out. Since Baltimore has a Chinese sister city, Xiamen, on the SE coast of China, we decided that John would have to visit China in order to continue his research for his book "Coastal Cooking". Is it possible that there is a mysterious Sweet Potato Greens Convergence taking place in Baltimore? --Emil -- Emil Volcheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://acm.org/~volcheck _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info