Sentence examples for yam in from inspiring English sources

Jane Kramer differentiates between the sweet potato and the yam in her article on root vegetables ("Down Under," November 22nd).

Lycopene was isolated from the black bryony (Tamus communis), a European yam, in 1873, and from tomatoes in 1875.

Susan Bloom, the president of Congregation Shirat Ha Yam in Nantucket, Mass., said that low overhead helped keep her congregation's holiday services free, too.

Another time I layered paper-thin slices of carrot, butternut squash, potato, parsnip, apple and yam in a gratin dish and heated a little chicken broth with butter and slices of ginger.

Deep-fried dishes come out a little on the heavy side, like the shrimp with flat diamond-shaped slices of yam in a sweet batter, which quickly becomes cloying.

Back then it was the murder of a fifteen-year-old girl, on her way to school in the city of Bat Yam, in 1992, that sent Israelis to the streets in protest.

Fully cook the yams in the oven, approximately 15 minutes, until golden brown with a nice crust.

Not far away, women sell giant yams in Clinton Square, similarly named after the former American president, who delivered a speech on democracy here.

That evening at sunset, Patti laid down elephant-ear leaves for us to sit on, and his wife served us yams in coconut milk.

In the north the intensive cultivation of fertile soils gives way to swidden (slash-and-burn) cultivation of taro and yams in the forests of the foothills.

Asparagus are beautiful when you get a bit of smoke into them, or roast sweet potatoes or yams in the coals wrapped in foil, and you can even jerk pineapples!