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A review of Michelle Rousseau and Suzanne Rousseau's Provisions: The Roots of Caribbean Cooking published in The Atlantic that discusses cassava flour.

Photograph of 5 women, 4 of them with large trays of sweets.

This is an audio file from KCBX FM (Central Coast Public Radio from California. The segment identifies that Americans have confused yams and sweet potatoes and more often than not, what is labeled a yam in the US is really a sweet potato.

1897 Jamaican culinary reference in English language.

The logo for Cynthia Nelson's blog "Tastes Like Home" with her headshot.

This casually racist trade journal from the Barrett company was created in an effort to sell more yams and sweet potatoes. It contains one of the first recipes to use marshmallows with yams. The first recipe to put these two together was published…

This recipe is a very close cousin to my wife's wrongly named sweet potato recipe in which we use yams and not sweet potato. Published in 1827 and written by Mary Rudolph, the Virginia Housewife or Methodical Cook is 225 pages long and contains over…

The original email and response to obtain a person's candied yams recipe.

Agricultural report on cassava meant for U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Chemistry.