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Workers sort through sweet potatoes Friday at Vick Family Farms in Wilson, N.C. The humble sweet potato staple of Thanksgiving dinners and Southern cooking for generations has recently gone cosmopolitan, thanks to a booming appetite for the vegetables in Europe, where they were all but unknown as recently as 10 years ago.

Americans see 50 percent increase in cost of Thanksgiving dinner

By James Maahs | November 22, 2010

It might be a small Thanksgiving for more families this year. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation the average price for Thanksgiving dinner has seen a 50 percent increase since 1987. Assistant economics professor Jeremy Groves, explained...