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

What are yams? What are sweet potatoes?  While yams and sweet potatoes both grow underground, they come from ...

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 — this is a ...

For some people, "yam" and "sweet potato" are interchangeable terms. These tubers share a few similarities, but they aren't even the same species of plant: yams are from the lily family, and sweet ...

If you thought yams and sweet potatoes were the same thing, think again! While the two root vegetables might appear to be similar (largely in part to grocery stores mislabeling them), the difference ...

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 ...

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” ...

Walk through any grocery store in the U.S. around the holidays and you’ll see sweet potatoes and yams used almost interchangeably. But here’s the truth—what most of us call “yams” are actually sweet ...