That's a fine little yam, ma'am," I told Tara Smith, the LSU AgCenter's sweet potato extension specialist and coordinator of the Sweet Potato Reseach Station in Chase, Louisiana.
I had just finished a taste test comparing Evangeline (left), a new variety of sweet potato developed by the LSU sweet potato folks with the Red Garnet yam (center) and the Beauregard sweet potato (right). Smith was shocked by my experiment since the Evangeline is still in the testing phase and not available to the pub
