Corfu Sweet Potato Bourdeto

This old traditional Corfu recipe for sweet potatoes is called bourtheto or bourdeto.

Sweet potatoes probably came to Corfu with the Venetians, as did many other New World crops, sometime during the sixteenth century, where they remained poor man’s fodder for hundreds of years. It took the English to popularize them, by showing Corfiote aristocrats the virtues of serving them with syrup. Nevertheless, they have been cooked on […]

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