yam and bread fruit

l to r: yellow yam, puna yam

......depending on who you ask, there are 194 countries in the world today, (see link below).
in more than 90 of these, yams and bread fruit are grown and eaten.

in our neighbourhood, if you want to cook them up for dinner, you can't find them in the local supermarkets, (waitrose and morrisons). people come from all over west london to buy these and many other fruit and vegetables from the specialist shops in shepherds bush market catering to overseas cuisine......

bread fruit

a full list of commonly eaten vegetables 'exclusively' found in shepherds bush market to be published shortly......

http://www.nationsonline.org