The Skinny on Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes and yams are actually two very different vegetables.

While American grocery stores use the terms interchangeably, what they are always referring to is actually a sweet potato, not a yam. Garnet Yams and Jewel Yams, for instance, aren’t yams at all — they’re sweet potatoes! Candied Yams? Nope, sweet potatoes. Confused yet?

In fact, chances are that you’ll never accidentally buy an actual yam instead of a sweet potato at your local grocery. You can find “true” yams as well as other varities of sweet potatoes in Caribbean and Asian specialty grocery stores.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

yams = evil

Man uses can of "yams" to break into store.

If by yams they mean cadied sweet potatoes.

Don't get any ideas!!

Friday, November 17, 2006

Flyers are done!

Even though Kinko's has a problem with not sucking, the flyers are done! I only have 120 of them which isn't many at all, is it? Hopefully I'll run out and have to get more made. But how hard is it to print a two-sided page and cut at cropmarks without cutting crooked WITH A MACHINE WHOSE PURPOSE IN LIFE IS TO CUT STRAIGHT ALKSJASAS

Flyers hooray!!

Sweet potato awareness!

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Recipes!

It's hard to find YAM recipes, but it's easy as SWEET POTATO PIE to find sweet potato recipes! Please ignore any instances of the word "yam" because, I assure you, they're all talking about sweet potatoes.

FOR THE RECORD: Some people call the deeper orange, red-skinned sweet potatoes (Garnet Yams [not a yam]) "yams," but call the lighter-skinned and paler-fleshed sweet potatoes (Jewel Yams [not a yam]) "sweet potatoes," to differentiate between them. But they're both just sweet potatoes, okay?? OKAY??

Sweet Potato Pie with Pecan Topping from Simply Recipes

Maple-Glazed YamsSweet Potatoes with Pecan Topping also from Simply Recipes

Sweet Potato and Cornbread Stuffing, which was ALMOST the recipe I featured on the flyers.

A slew of other recipes from the same site.

Sweet Potato Pie from Tigersandstrawberries.com, which IS featured on the flyer.

Sweet Potato Apple Casserole from Food Musings.

Down with the man

Submitted for your approval:

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Resources!!

No one will download this but on the off chance that you'd like to spread the word about sweet potato rights, here's a way to print your own flyers!

Download the .pdf of the flyer here.

You can print this at home or at a print shop, like Kinko's, whatever. If you take it to Kinko's just be sure to tell them it's duplex, or double-sided printing. You can even choose cool paper there but I hate Kinko's so try not to give them too much money, but a little is okay.

If you print it at home, just take the stack of print outs after you've printed JUST PAGE ONE, hold them straight out, and turn them to your right so that the blank side is facing up. Then load them into the printer without changing the direction of the paper, and print JUST PAGE TWO.

Then just cut them twice between the margins, and there you go!! You're as big of a nerd as I am, hooray!

Yams

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