While many Mississippians will enjoy sweet potato pies, casseroles and yams this holiday season, some are unfamiliar with how ...

The long-standing debate between sweet potato and pumpkin pie is about as old as Thanksgiving itself. But their history is ...

While sweet potatoes have an edge with their higher vitamin A content and slightly lower glycemic index, regular potatoes ...

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The Church of the Holy Communion was joined by several organizations and hundreds of volunteers for the second annual Crop ...

Sweet potatoes are a popular crop to grow in home vegetable gardens and the delicious versatile tubers can be roasted, mashed, chipped, and more, once lifted. If you are worried you don’t have the ...

Sweet potatoes are one of those oddities, as they are not a true potato; in fact, they actually belong to the plant line of ...

These pies also differ in the production of crops of pumpkin and sweet potatoes. Pumpkins have been cultivated since about ...

From food to gifts, the holidays can get pricey. That's why one Jackson city councilman is lending a helping hand.On Saturday ...

Tens of thousands of pounds of sweet potatoes were bagged up and will soon be en route to dinner tables for Thanksgiving.