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Sylvia Carter

Sylvia Carter Sylvia Carter

Carter writes a food column for Newsday.

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Last fall at the North Carolina State Fair, I visited for a spell with a farmer who goes by the name Pa Tater. He showed me some purple sweet potatoes and told me about their antioxidant properties.

So coveted are they, Pa Tater said, that the relatively small crop of them sells out in a weekend at local Whole Foods markets and "the kind of restaurants that have chefs." (Stokes Purple ones...

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