This story was first published on June 24, 2021. 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 ...

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 ...

#PizzaLunare on Instagram shows a lot of love for Universal Orlando Resort's Epic Universe pizza dish. What does ube taste like? It's been described as a sweet potato, only purple, with a slightly ...

It’s the color that’ll likely grab your attention first if you’ve never tried a dessert made with ube before. The bright, highly Instagrammable purple of the cakes, pop tarts and other sweets that ...

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Whether in the Batanes Islands, on kitchen tables during holidays, or behind bakery counters in New York or Tokyo, ube connects the past and present A trowel (/ˈtraʊ.əl/), in the hands of an ...