Ube purple yam (Dioscorea alata L) is a healthy root vegetable from Southeast Asia. This tuber (a plant that mainly grows ...

Spring onions and scallions, zucchini and squash, and sweet potatoes and yams are all examples of vegetables that occasionally get confused for each other. It’s easy to mix up foods that look ...

Serve mashed yams with plenty of butter and seasoning as an accompaniment to meat stews or other vegetable dishes. Make yam chips or bake yams in their skins. In Africa, yam is pounded into a very ...