November means turkey, mashed potatoes and bright orange candied yams or, depending on who you ask, candied sweet potatoes. While some may use sweet potato and yam interchangeably, botanically ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Consider the yam: delicious, nutritious, versatile — and so much more than that marshmallow-dotted sugar bomb so many of us associate with the last Thursday ...

It’s time to set the record straight on these two often mixed-up veggies. Yams and sweet potatoes are two very different plants. Yams are more closely related to lilies, while sweet potatoes are more ...

Is there adifference between yams and sweet potatoes? Absolutely! Let's just say your Thanksgiving candied yams probably aren't yams. To clear up the confusion here is everything you need to know ...

Farmer Greg Nauta and Nicole Rucker of Cofax show off the garnet yams from Rocky Canyon Farms. Actual yams are starchy, edible roots, indigenous to Africa and Asia. They have a bark-like skin and ...

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Sweet potatoes or yams? Trick question. Despite what millions of Americans (and many groceries) may call them, those dark orange, moist root vegetables that you roast in sugar syrup and top with ...

Here are some insights into the culinary uses and benefits of this unique ingredient. African water yam is packed with ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Employees at the chemical company BASF spent Tuesday at a Yam Jam to benefit the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. At the Yam Jam, the employees took sweet ...