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

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 ...

CHINESE yam, otherwise known as the cinnamon vine because of its perfumed flowers, is a vegetable for the patient gardener. Its edible, starchy tuber takes at least two years to reach a harvestable ...

New Zealand yams originated from the South American Andes, where they are an important vegetable crop known as oca. They are not the large yams referred to in North American cookbooks that are ...