The History of Sweet Potatoes — The Real Potato History Forgot

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🥔 The sweet potato was here first… and somehow lost its own name.

In this episode of Crumb Lore, we trace the bizarre history of the sweet potato: the crop that gave the potato its name, reached Europe before the “regular” potato, may have crossed the Pacific before humans did, helped feed China into a population boom, inspired Tudor aphrodisiac myths, powered George Washington Carver’s inventions, and today helps prevent blindness in millions of children.

It’s a story about language, empire, famine, science, and one root vegetable that keeps showing up whenever the world is hungry.

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