Tag: Tubers

  • Yams and Tubers

    Yams and Tubers

    Before potatoes dominated everyone’s diet, there was a much broader selection of yams and tubers. From air potato (Dioscorea bulbifera), the high-producing starchy tapioca, taro, which grows well in the shade, the delicious sweet potato, whose leaves can also be consumed, to the more recently introduced jicama that can even be eaten raw, all of…