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.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Japanese Sweet Potato

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This is pretty uh... yeah. But it's a roasted sweet potato. When it gets chilly, vendors set up and roast them and sell them for you to enjoy plain. They were sweet and fairly moist but wow it was a lot of sweet potato to eat all by yourself.

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