JAMAICAN YAMPIES
Trial of a New Food The first yampies ever seen in England have reached London. They came from Jamaica and if they prove popular more will follow. Members of the Dioscorea family, they have a rough, greyish-green, wrinkled skin and may be boiled or baked or turned into meal for making cakes and puddings. They cook white and are regarded in Jamaica as the aristocrat of roots, being preferred to the yam and sweet potato, to which they are related, for their nutty flavour. Only two cases were received at Covent Garden Market, for experimental purposes, so that their trial as a new food for Britain will be limited. The efforts of the marketing division of the Department of Agriculture, Kingston, are resulting in Jamaican produce arriving at Covent Garden in increasing quantities and greater variety. In addition to bananas, oranges and grapefruit, there are now regular consignments of limes, tangerines, tangelos, mangoes, grenadillas, tree tomatoes, beans, capsicums, aubergines, marrows and new potatoes.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 189, 7 May 1937, Page 12
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165JAMAICAN YAMPIES Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 189, 7 May 1937, Page 12
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