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Sweet Potatoes Rescoldo

By Francis Mallmann
Ember roasted sweet potatoes topped with butter fleur de sel and red pepper flakes.
Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Erika Joyce

Often, the less you do to an ingredient the better it tastes. Put some sweet potatoes in the embers, ashes, and coals of your campfire or your grill, then sit back. Watch the geese winging overhead in great convoys. An hour or two later, pluck a slow-roasted sweet potato from the ashes. Split it, serve with butter, and you will be satisfied. Add a few other ingredients and you’ll begin to see how a bit of inspiration and intuition will allow you to keep reinventing this simple recipe.

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