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An encyclopedia overview of cassava.

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A contemporary digital recipe for Jamaican bammy cake

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.

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 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…

This is another recipe from American Cookery by Amelia Simmons. This recipe mentions yams and this is why it is added to my items for this exhibit

This is said to be the origins of sweet potato casserole. Printed in 1796, it was written by Amelia Simmons who dubbed herself an American Orphan. This is touted as the first American cookbook.

A picture of one of the yams Caroline Sullivan mentions in her cookbook.