"Wayne Boatwright" ha scritto nel messaggio
Pandora wrote:
>> Ahh! OK. Sometimes, when Italians light fireplace, they wrap potatoes
>> with alluminium paper and then put them under ash; but I know also that
>> some people put potatoes under ash withaut paper!!!
>> [CUT]
>
> My granmother used to roast sweet potatoes like that. We don't usually
> have fires like that now, so the potatoes are baked in the kitchen oven.

Yes, of course!
>
> When my grandmother would roast them, my mother (who would be 92 now)
> would
> sometimes take a roasted sweet potato with her to school for lunch. They
> lived far out in the country.

Ah! yes! Also here in Italy! When there was war there wasn't so much food!
Cheers
pandora