Some recipes just stick with you. For me, it’s my mom’s candied yams, soft sweet potatoes in a buttery brown sugar sauce that ...

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 ...

Some people use the words yams and sweet potatoes interchangeably. The truth is yams are not sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes are not yams! Even on the outside of canned sweet potatoes it labels them ...

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

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 ...

Fall's favorite root vegetable has a built-in way to make itself sweeter—you just need the right cooking method.

Sweet potatoes have more vitamins A and C, and fewer calories and carbohydrates.Yam has more fiber and potassium. It also ...

You wait all year to dig into your mom’s Thanksgiving yams with mini marshmallows. While they may be delicious, it turns out they aren’t yams at all. Even though the words “sweet potato” and “yam” ...