Sweet potato

Sweet potatoes, also known as yams, were common edible tubers found throughout Faerûn. Beloved for their versatility, sweet potatoes were often roasted, steamed, and candied.

Description
Sweet potatoes were oblong tubers, similar in size to regular potatoes. Many yams that grew in the wild remained in the ground through the colder times of the year, serving as food for wild pigs and other foraging beasts. Humans learned to cultivate yams.

Availability
Sembia's nobility often hunted wild boars in the winter as the beasts foraged for sweet potatoes left in the ground since fall.

The Inn of Seven Stars in Ormath served candied yams to its guests.

In Mezro, sweet potatoes could always be found among many cultivated croups of the Agricultural Quarter. Chult was known for its species of sweet potatoes called koko-yams.

In Sams Bandar, yams were part of the rich regional food culture.

Outside of Toril, yams were cultivated in one of the Domains of Dread, Markovia.

Usages
Sembite boar hunters used to roast whole beasts who, in winter months, survived on a rich diet of sweet potatoes. As the beasts were roasted, the potatoes in their stomachs cooked as well. Yams were used to stuff boar sausages as well.

In Sams Bandar, many foods, including yams, were fried in palm oil or stewed in coconut milk. These dishes were traditionally accompanied by palm wine.

Some chefs in the Western Heartlands were known to have prepared a dish of candied yams.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Swords of the Iron Legion • The Great and Dread God • Candlekeep Mysteries: "The Curious Tale of Wisteria Vale"
 * Novels
 * Ring of Winter
 * The Halls of Stormweather
 * Video Games
 * Baldur's Gate III
 * Baldur's Gate III