[Sca-cooks] Pennsic Iron Chef Results

[Decker, Terry D.]

Yams often have a cream or light yellow flesh (which can be true of some
varieties of sweet potato).  The ones I've seen have a rougher and more
fiberous skin than a sweet potato, but that may not hold true for the entire
genus.

I've also come across "sweet potatoes" and "yams" side by side and them turn
out to be two different varieties of sweet potato.  I've also found them
properly marked.

Bear

> I bought them at Butler Farm Market and they were labeled
> "yams" next to a
> bin of rounder looking tubers labeled "sweet potatoes", so
> I'm assuming that
> they were truly yams.  Of course, I couldn't tell the
> difference from sight
> if my life depended on it!
> Wrynne