Virginia's Eastern Shore, between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, is best known for the city of Chincoteague and the feral ponies named for it. Like the Eastern Shore of Maryland, it is a place of natural beauty and delicious hard-shelled crabs, but just today at lunch, I discovered another of its culinary highlights: the hayman potato. As I understand it, the hayman potato, which grows only in this place, is a small potato that looks white but tastes sweet. I've never seen one au naturel, but the Route 11 brand fried chips I had made from them were swell: especially crisp and brittle, just faintly sweet and plenty salty. I'll be on the lookout for these spuds next time I visit the lower Chesapeake Bay; and in the meanwhile, I'll be eating a few bags of the good chips they make.