Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Think you're cooking yams to take to Thanksgiving dinner this year? Eh, you're probably cooking sweet potatoes. Let us explain.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You wait all year to dig into your mom’s Thanksgiving yams with mini marshmallows. While they may be delicious, it turns out they ...

Yams are in the family Dioscoreaceae, which contains hundreds of species of yams. Sweet potatoes are in the family Convolvulaceae, which is the same family as morning glories. Do yams and sweet ...

Margaret Eby is currently the Deputy Food Director at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has previously held a position as Senior Editor at MyRecipes, Food & Wine and Food52. Her work has also appeared in ...

Preheat oven to 400°F. Pierce each yam in several places with fork. Place directly on oven rack and roast until just tender, 40 to 50 minutes, depending on size of yams. Transfer roasted yams to work ...

If you thought yams and sweet potatoes were the same thing, think again! While the two root vegetables might appear to be similar (largely in part to grocery stores mislabeling them), the difference ...

November means turkey, mashed potatoes and bright orange candied yams or, depending on who you ask, candied sweet potatoes. While some may use sweet potato and yam interchangeably, botanically ...

Many people in the United States use the terms “sweet potato” and “yam” interchangeably. Both are tubers but the similarities end there; yams and sweet potatoes are not the same vegetables. What is ...

This Thanksgiving, families across the country will enjoy a traditional meal of turkey, stuffing, and sweet potatoes ... or are they yams? So what’s a sweet potato? Then what’s a yam? Where did the ...