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State Food type Food name Image Year & citation Alabama: State cookie Yellowhammer cookie: 2023 [1] State nut: Pecan: 1982 [2] State fruit: Blackberry: 2004 [3] State tree fruit: Peach: 2006 [4] State dessert: Lane cake: 2016 [5] State vegetable: Sweet potato: 2021 [6] State legume: Peanut: 2022 [7] Alaska: None [8] Arizona: None [9] Arkansas ...
The first table below lists sweet potato cultivars grown for their edible roots; the second table lists cultivars bred as ornamental vines. In the first table, the Parentage column briefly explains how the sweet potato cultivar was bred. Sweet potato plants with desirable traits are selectively bred to produce new cultivars.
Sweet potato casserole is a side dish of mashed sweet potatoes in a casserole dish, topped with a brown sugar and pecan topping. [102] The sweet potato became a favorite food item of the French and Spanish settlers, thus beginning a long history of cultivation in Louisiana. [103]
Peanut pie, a sweet dessert made from Virginia-grown peanuts, reflects the state's significant role as a leading peanut producer. Much like a pecan pie, peanut pie combines the rich flavor of ...
Doug, also known as Dug, [1] is a tuber in the Cucurbitaceae family that was grown by Colin and Donna Craig-Brown near Hamilton in New Zealand. [2] Weighing roughly 17.4 pounds (7.9 kg), it was thought to be the largest potato on record for a period after its discovery, topping the 11-pound (5.0 kg) record holder at the time.
Bizarre Foods America is an American television series, and a spin-off of Bizarre Foods, this time focusing on the United States rather than international travel. Andrew Zimmern travels to various cities throughout the country (as well as Canada, Colombia, and Peru) and samples local cuisines and ways of life.
Dioscorea alata – also called ube (/ ˈ uː b ɛ,-b eɪ /), ubi, purple yam, or greater yam, among many other names – is a species of yam (a tuber).The tubers are usually a vivid violet-purple to bright lavender in color (hence the common name), but some range in color from cream to plain white.
Freshly dug sweet potato plants with tubers Hemerocallis tuber roots A root tuber, tuberous root or storage root is a modified lateral root , enlarged to function as a storage organ . The enlarged area of the tuber can be produced at the end or middle of a root or involve the entire root.