Listen up! In these United States anyway, whatever is signposted a "yam" in the supermarket, next to "sweet potatoes, " is also and actually a sweet potato. Yes. There are no "yams" distinct from sweet potatoes in Amurrica. The actual "yam" is a tropical African root veggie, with far less food value than the sumptuous sweet, and not at all related botanically to the sweet potato. They may be grown in Hawaii, but they rarely turn up on Thanksgiving tables. Oh, BTW, the Japanese love the sweet potato, a native of the Americas, which they enjoy in a myriad of varieties, many of them not sweet.
We poor Amurricans have to settle for three varieties, all of them sweet, none of them YAMS.
I feel like I've been lied to this whole time about yams, err sweet potatoes... Thanks for the info!
Posted by: Build Muscle | April 23, 2012 at 04:01 PM
yummy,great write up! i can't agree more.
Posted by: cheap columbia jackets | February 09, 2012 at 06:48 PM
What can I say but to agree that it's really yummy.
Posted by: Gastric Bypass Man | December 23, 2011 at 07:20 AM
Keep up the good fight, Tia!
Posted by: Foodie | November 24, 2011 at 12:08 PM
Yes, Yams are definitely sweet potatoes! I've been trying to tell people for years!
Posted by: Tia G | November 24, 2011 at 11:37 AM
And you yam a sweet patootie, gotta say.
Posted by: Foodie | November 24, 2011 at 09:48 AM
We yam what we yam.
Posted by: Ezra | November 23, 2011 at 08:04 PM