[Sca-cooks] yams/sweet potatoes

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

> If you are in the United States, what you are getting labeled as 
> "yams" is likely to *be* sweet potatos. I think there are comments on 
> this in the potatoes-smg files in the Florilegium.

As I understand it, and from my experience, this is true.  The african tuber "yam" is not what we find labeled "yam" in our grocery stores.  Rather, we find different colored sweet potatoes.  And if they are in fact not the exact same critter, they are so darned close that they are interchangable.

-Magdalena

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Tara Sersen Boroson

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