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This is one of the first recipes to use marshmallows with yams. The first recipe was published by the Angelus Marshmallow company but no known physical copy exists. This recipe comes from the trade journal Sweet Potatoes and Yams which was published…

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.

A contemporary digital recipe for Jamaican bammy cake

Online store, Walmart.

An encyclopedia overview of cassava.

This is a memoir about pounding yam that I found to be truly interesting. It was written by a woman named Mof’Oluwawo O MojolaOluwa who is a Nigerian writer and lawyer

This op-ed piece from Jessica B Harris discusses the cultural significance of the yam

Before they were decimated by the Europeans, the indigenous Carib, Arawak, and Ciboney mixed with the newcomers and the Africans as well, giving rise to a mixed Creole population.

From "Gardening in the Tropics," a poem written by Olive Senior

A fruit that is grown in Africa, Central and South America, and the West Indies.