Sentence examples for yam from inspiring English sources

Locally grown crops such as yam, manioc, sorghum, sweet potatoes and maize were the staples of previous generations, who had rice as a Sunday treat.

When scrubbed, shelled and served with lime leaves and lemon grass in a hot Thai tom yam koong soup, they taste wonderful.

But if people choose to spend their money trying wild yam cream, or extract of milk thistle, why not let them?

He described the country's situation as like that of "a yam between two boulders".

"Like a yam between two boulders" has been on the lips of Nepali commentators and politicians ever since King Pritvhi's time.

So farmers stuff them with antibiotics, which could end up in your tom yam koong.Fortunately, there is a technological fix.

In the north, cotton planting was fostered by using higher-yielding varieties; the practice of cotton-rice and cotton-yam crop rotation also increased yields.

Poor boy Okonkwo grew up to have three wives, eight children and two barns full of yams.

When he was a child, the land grew more than enough cassavas and yams to feed his family.

Through them he surveyed the cultural, social and ethical fallout from the substance he had synthesised so innocently, back in 1951, using diosgenin from wild yams, in the hope it might produce a cure for menstrual trouble.It was the Pill that had unlocked his literary side.

"When it comes to discussing the cost of planting, the men beat the prices down," says Victoria Lucas, a widow of 40 in Taraba, who grows cassava, yams and maize with her six children.