I often use this site when I have food interrogations. I found that page on sweet potatoes and yams. According to the page, there are a couple of other vegetables that are in the category, including the japanese moutain yam or yamaimo which is white-fleshed and sticky and the boniato or tropical white potato, which is known by many other names and is reportedly fluffier and has a more subtle flavour. Maybe there is information there that could be used to amplify the answer in Cecil’s column. Keep up the good work!
Thank you k.os I plan on printing out that page and passing it around the Thanksgiving dinner table. But under any names yams / sweet potatoes are disgusting vegetables and I curse the remote ancestor that first thought of adding them to the menu.
You don’t like sweet potatoes? Maybe it’s the way they were prepared. I had ‘candied yams’ once and I hated them. Way too sweet. Now, baked or steamed… Yum!
As Cecil said, yams are not even related to sweet potatoes. Most of them are not orange or sweet. In the Caribbean there are dozens of varieties of yams, and they are a nice variation in stews and soups, instead of potatoes all the time.
