Soaring demand and extreme weather worsened by climate change have wiped out harvests of the popular purple yam.

This Southeast Asian staple is having a moment in the sun. We reached out to Filipino food experts to learn more about ube and its newfound currency. It turns out that not every ube creation you see ...

With its eye-catching color and sweet-but-subtle flavor, ube has been on dessert menus everywhere over the past few years. A staple in Filipino cooking for generations, ube became Instagram-famous ...

Looking for a twist in your recipes? Imagine a sweet potato, but brilliantly purple – that's ube! It's a staple in Filipino ...

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Alexandra Domrongchai is a food and travel writer based out of New York. With years of experience in the restaurant industry, food culture research, and as an avid traveler, she joins Travel + Leisure ...

Native to the Philippines, ube (Tagalog for tuber and pronounced OO-beh) is a purple yam that has played a central role in local food culture for more than four centuries, and has been gaining ...

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. That lovely purple ice cream you see just above isn't black raspberry flavored. It's made of a vegetable called ube (pronounced "ooh-bae"). And no, this isn ...