ISSUE 33, VIRGINIA, Part 5: Hayman Sweet Potato
An Eastern Shore Specialty
Hayman Sweet Potato
One of the white skinned light fleshed “West Indian” family of sweet potatoes, the Hayman Sweet Potato is the signature vegetable of the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Prolific both in vining and setting tubers, the Hayman sweet is regularly oblong, smooth, large and white—blunt at the ends, or spindle shaped. The raw flesh is …