Yukon Gold

American  

[yoo-kon gohld] / ˈyu kɒn ˈgoʊld /

Or Yukon gold

noun

1. a yellow-fleshed, all-purpose variety of potato.

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Yukon Gold British  

noun

1. a variety of yellow-fleshed potato developed in Canada

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Etymology

Origin of Yukon Gold

First recorded in 1965–70; developed by Canadian agricultural researcher Garnet Johnston (1916–2000) at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada

Example Sentences

To make it a complete one-pan meal, we add Yukon Gold potatoes.

From Washington Times • Mar. 28, 2023

Takeout: Carillon Kitchen at The Woodmark Hotel offers a Thanksgiving box including an oven-roasted roasted turkey with giblet-sage gravy, butternut squash Dungeness crab bisque, Yukon Gold Beecher’s Cheese whipped potatoes and more.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2022

For something a little creamier than a Russet but not as dense as a red potato, you can go for a more in-between option, such as gold potatoes, notably the popular Yukon Gold.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2021

You Say Potato, I Say Double-Stranded RNA Tiffany Stecker writes about climate change, agriculture and forestry for ClimateWire in Washington, DC and prefers red potatoes to Yukon Gold.

From Scientific American • Jun. 12, 2013

So I became a member of the Yukon Gold Expedition, under the management of John Herrick and Julius Dwight, engineers.

From The Blue Birds' Winter Nest by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth