Sweet potatoes: it's peak season for these tasty tubers.

From: Country Living Gardener | Date: October 1, 2003 | Copyright information

While few things are more old-fashioned than sweet-potato pie or Grandmother's maple-flavored sweet-potato casserole , sweet potatoes are in fact on the cutting edge of Contemporary cooking Cultivated for at least the past 2,500 years, these tasty roots (correctly, tubers) are now recognized as a top source of beta carotene, a compound converted by the body into Vitamin A essential for vision, growth, cell division, reproduction and a haelthy immune system. What keeps them in the n...

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