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

Every day since Christmas, Team Smorgasburg has held tastings in their Crown Heights office—about 75 in all, culled from some 300 initial applicants—to determine who would be joining the ...

There’s been quite a bit of buzz about ube lately—a purple showstopper of a root vegetable that’s popping up left and right on social media and restaurant menus alike—and we must admit we’re intrigued ...

Make Abi Balingit's strawberry shortcake sapin-sapin (layered rice cake), ube cheesecake bars with a sesame cracker crust and rainbow fruit polvoron (shortbread cookies) You can save this article by ...

The world’s new hunger for ube is starting to strain the people who farm it in the Philippines, considered to be the top ...

Ube Joe-Joes ($3.69) – Trader Joes makes Joe-Joes in a several flavors, including Ube. For those who don’t know, Joe-Joes are sandwich cookies like Oreos. I expected a simple vanilla sandwich cookie ...

SUDDENLY, UBE IS everywhere. The purple yam, a popular ingredient in Filipino desserts, blazes across dessert trays in amethyst-hued scoops of ice cream, cupcakes colored a brilliant violet, lavender ...

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 ...