Preheat oven to 400°. Grease a medium baking dish with butter.

Our garden columnist is tackling a Thanksgiving debate: what is a sweet potato and what is a yam? And which one should you ...

In fact, most canned goods or vegetables that are labeled yams here in the United States are actually sweet potatoes in ...

Everything Thanksgiving: Get all our Thanksgiving recipes, how-to’s and more! Sweet potatoes are a traditional Thanksgiving side dish for many families. Others prefer yams. But what really is the ...

What most of us call sweet potatoes are actually yams. True sweet potatoes resemble elongated baking potatoes, with slightly yellow interiors and a mildly sweet taste. True sweet potatoes would not ...

Ah, it's Thanksgiving time. As someone who loves to cook — actually, as someone who loves to hang out in the kitchen wherever I go — this is a wonderful time of year. On Thanksgiving morning I’m up ...

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 ...

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