One particular pizza sure is turning heads and racking up views − but not because of the cheese, toppings or sauce. It's because of the purple pizza crust. Yes, you read that right. The uber-popular ...

Although they're both purple and have a comparable sweet taste, there are distinct differences between the Okinawan purple sweet potato and the ube tuber. Okinawan purple sweet potatoes, very much ...

Ube, the violet yam native to Southeast Asia, has been making its purple presence known in bakeries and on dessert menus throughout Philly. Though there are many varieties of ube (pronounced “ou-beh”) ...

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 ...

As Ria Barbosa was getting ready to open a restaurant in Hawai‘i, she was excited to cook with a whole new world of fresh tropical fruits and vegetables — but she didn’t realize just how familiar some ...

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 ...

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

Known for its sweet taste and iconic purple hue, ube -- a purple yam of Filipino origin -- has made quite an imprint on the culinary world. Ube has become an increasingly popular flavor in all kinds ...

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 ...