Although grocery shoppers in the United States use “sweet potatoes” and “yams” interchangeably, yams are actually unrelated tropical tubers. They’re paler and more crisp than what we think of as yams/sweet potatoes. You’ll probably stumble across true yams if you’re in a mercado in Latin America, but if you’re State-side, even the canned “yams” are [...]
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