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

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 ...

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 ...

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MILLIE: Our purple yam—that nutty, vanilla-flavored ube—has finally become an international food craze! Cultivated across the ...

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UBE, Yamaguchi Prefecture--This local city facing the Seto Inland Sea was a bit of a backwater until anime director Hideaki Anno found fame with the runaway success of the "Evangelion" franchise. Fans ...