TIP OF THE DAY: Jícama

If you hadn’t read the headline, would you be able to name this vegetable? Botanists might call it Pachyrhizus erosus, but we know it as jícama (HEEK-uh-muh) or alternatively, the Mexican yam or Mexican turnip, although, as it is so often in popular nomenclature, jicama is not related botanically to either the yam or the…
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