🍡 Kiriboshi Imo (Dried strips of Sweet Potato)

It is said that the origin of ‘kiriboshi imo' is Shizuoka Prefecture. In Edo Era, Gon'emon Ohsawa rescued the ship from Satsuma (current Kagoshima Prefecture) wrecked at the offshore of Omaezaki. This made sweet potato introduced in Shizuoka Prefecture. After that, the cultivation of sweet potato has been prevailing in the prefecture, and ‘nikiriboshi-hou', the method to dry sliced boiled sweet potato under the sunshine, was invented. They say that it is the origin of ‘hoshi-imo' (dried sweet potato). Drying sweet potato under the sunshine makes potato more distinctive of its sweetness and softness. The area suits to produce dried sweet potato due to ‘enshuu karakkaze' (strong dry wind in winter in Shizuoka) and long daylight.