Due to some marketing confusion in Louisiana in the 30’s when farmers marketed a sweet potato as a yam, people now mix the ...

Sweet potato pie from Georgia's Sweet Potato Pie Company. 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 ...

If you need a tasty candied yams recipe for the holiday season, check out the one below from Recipe Master:. 2 lb sweet potatoes; ¾ cup dark or light brown sugar; 1 cup white sugar; 2 tsp ...

Americans use the words "yam" and "sweet potato" interchangeably, but the two are not the same. Learn more about the history of yams vs. sweet potatoes in the United States.

Pastry chef Carla Jones loads a trio of sweet potato pies onto a tray destined for the oven on Nov. 15 at Ol' Henry, a restaurant in Berkeley, Mo. Tristen Rouse/St. Louis Public Radio hide caption ...

First, let's start with the origins of sweet potato pie. According to The Washington Post, sweet potatoes were first cultivated in Peru. Shipments of the root crop were sent to West Africa and ...

If your family hails from the South one or two generations back, you're probably a sweet potato pie stan. Northerners made do with pumpkins. "Below the Mason-Dixon line . . .