Also seemingly endless are the types of chocolates available: Milk or dark, 65 or 80 percent, baking or semi-sweet. But what does it all mean?

The leaves, stalks and green ... Mary Collins, a master gardener from San Jose with a second home in Kona, enjoys eating mashed 'Hawaiian Purple' sweet potatoes when in the tropics.

By Prof. Kirthi Tennakone The sweet potato is probably the oldest cultivated crop. Native to tropical America, Peruvians grew it 8,000 years ago. Colombus introduced sweet potatoes to Europe; later ...