Regular potatoes are higher in potassium, while sweet potatoes provide much more vitamin A. Sweet and regular potatoes are both tuberous root vegetables, but they differ in appearance and taste.

For many Americans, the Thanksgiving feast just isn't complete until they dig into a slice of pumpkin or sweet potato pie — and for some, there's simply no room for both. The two desserts have ...

Debra Freeman isn’t a big pie person. But if she had to pick between sweet potato and pumpkin — the two autumnal pies that have come to define the Thanksgiving season — the choice is a ...

The humble sweet potato is both delicious and nutritious. It’s also not actually a potato at all. Harold McGee wrote in “On Food And Cooking” that the root vegetable native to northern South ...

It’s a tradition in many homes on Thanksgiving: marshmallow-topped sweet potato casserole. As with everything related to traditions, underneath that sweet exterior there is history. Although it ...

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Massachusetts police made a spud-tacular break Friday in a decade-old cold-case murder — thanks to a sweet potato. Authorities finally arrested a suspect Friday in the Feb. 27, 2011, shooting ...