| Alternative staples such as foxtail millet, Job's tears, taro, yams and sago played a more important role in other parts of the archipelago. |
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| Try the wickedly delicious steamed Opakapaka laulau and shredded kalua pig wrapped in taro pancake. |
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| A basic meal comprises a starch food, preferably soft or hard taro, tapioca, or rice, and a protein food, normally fish. |
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| They also grow taro and yams, bananas, ginger, tobacco and colorful cucumbers. |
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| If, however, one starts from the taro itself rather than from the geometric shape, the picture becomes more complicated. |
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| These plants belong to the arum lily family, as does the better-known tropical root crop taro. |
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| Corn, cassava, taro, sago, soybeans, peanuts, and coconuts are also widely grown. |
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| Flour allows us to mix many kinds of food sources together, such as cassava, sago, taro, yam, etc. |
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| Foods like coconuts, sago and other staples like cassava, sweet potatoes and taro are collected and donated. |
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| Japanese macrobiotics uses a grated poultice of the taro potato which grows in tropical, hot countries. |
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| The reason for this is that taro was grown long before tannia was brought over from the New World. |
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| Opening for them will be none other then the diva of trip hop, Magpie, and the essential selecta, taro. |
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| Although similar, malanga grows best in dry places, while taro flourishes in wet ones. |
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| The deep-fried vegetable rolls filled with taro and sesame seeds are similar to sushi. |
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| The flesh of both the larger taro and eddo is white or cream-colored with pink-purple flecks. |
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| Hard-shell lobster is seductively aromatic, accompanied by taro, edamame, and Riesling. |
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| Bananas, pineapples, taro, peanuts, manioc, cassava, rice, and bread are the staples. |
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| Then I went to my favorite Malaysian restaurant for a bowl of curry mee with young tau foo, then to Ten Ren for a taro root bubble tea. |
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| Before contact with the West, staple foods included yam, taro, banana, coconut, sugarcane, tropical nuts, greens, pigs, fowl, and seafood. |
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| In an out-door pit that Tongans call an umu, a whole pig is roasted with foods like chicken, fish, meat, sweet potatoes, fish and taro. |
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| Local staples include breadfruit, arrowroot, pandanus, and taro, and are now supplemented with imported rice, flour, and sugar. |
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| He carried his belongings and took yams, taro, breadfruit, coconuts, almonds and island apples. |
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| Arrange some daikon, cucumber, and taro root in the center and roll to enclose. |
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| Staples of the diet remain taro, breadfruit, bananas, coconuts, papayas, mangoes, some chicken, pork, canned corned beef and seafood. |
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| Calaloo is sometimes combined with taro, dasheen, or tania leaves, okra, pumpkin, and crab to make a dish called calaloo and crab. |
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| The taro was baked in an earth oven, then pounded with a stone pounder on a large wooden poi board. |
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| With a larger pond, you can have lilies or tiger lotus, maybe some taro or umbrella palm that will help shade the pond surface. |
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| The leaves of the taro can also be cooked and eaten, in the same way as spinach. |
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| In low-lying areas, the country's water is so salty that many farmers now grow taro in tin-lined containers or concrete-lined planting beds. |
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| In the early part of the 1800s, the area was extensively planted with maize, potatoes, kumara, taro, calabashes, melons and pumpkins. |
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| People note that banana trees are not producing many fruits, and yams, taro and sweet potato are similarly affected. |
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| The best way to tell tannia and taro apart is to examine where the leaf is attached to the stem. |
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| Introduced from China, this taro has a relatively low acridity and is popular for taro chips. |
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| Along this fertile watershed, now part of Limahuli Garden, early Hawaiians grew crops, such as taro, that they'd brought with them in their canoes from Polynesia. |
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| The smaller taro, or eddo, is popular in Caribbean and West African cooking, but wearing gloves when peeling is a necessity as it can irritate the skin. |
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| Despite the fact that I don't understand any of what's printed on them, I really enjoy the tiny red bean mooncakes here... and anything made of taro. |
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| Some other delicious options include the thick-sauced and veggie laden yellow curry with pleasing cubes of taro root. |
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| After it was published, both the understanding of taro leaf blight and the possible control measures changed. |
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| They cultivated water-tolerant plants like taro at the base of the mounds, and water-intolerant plants such as bananas and yams on the top. |
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| The land produces taro, yams, sweet potatoes, cassava, and breadfruit. |
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| Other starchy foods include cassava, taro root, maize and plantains. |
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| Women tended the pigs, planted the staple crop of sweet potatoes and other foodstuffs such as greens and taro, and weeded and harvested the garden plot. |
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| The traditional Polynesian foodstuffs of taro, yams, and breadfruit were not well adapted for cultivation on the temperate islands of New Zealand. |
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| Rural villages on high islands are located within a short distance of both the sea and extensive family gardens devoted to taro, yam, sweet potato, or cassava cultivation. |
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| The attitude criticized in the words by the author quoted above also explains the importance of pigs, yams and taro for men and that of tapa and mats for women. |
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| About three hundred varieties of taro are known to have existed in Hawaii. |
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| Uchideshi life back then consisted of rising before the sun to pray, training, and eating two meals a day of rice porridge with sweet potato or taro. |
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| In the US they call them dasheen, taro, cocoyams and also malanga. |
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| Yams, taro, bananas and coconuts are also cultivated, but a reliance on sago means that the production of it remains a major practice of village life. |
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| Early Hawaiians relied on taro as a staple starch in their diet. |
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| And a souplike dessert cup of tender, mealy taro root in gentle coconut broth, speckled with tiny grains of tapioca, is absolutely strange and absolutely delicious. |
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| There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two. |
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| In his own pond, Esten is partial to containerized water lilies and lotus, as well as giant taro or elephant ear and the yellow sweet flag iris. |
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| The Maori heritage garden grows old varieties of vegetables, kumara, hue, taro, rewai, maize, and kamokamo. |
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| Common vegetable preparations include potatoes in olive oil and parsley, pickled cauliflower and beets, asparagus and taro. |
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| Importantly in this respect, Annex I to the Treaty includes taro, coconut, yam and grass-pea, staple crops of importance only for specific regions. |
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| Some of the more well-known members are taro, Anthurium, Dieffenbachia, Caladium, skunk cabbage, and Philodendron. |
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| The people of Ndounde prefer a much healthier diet of oranges, mangos, plums, peanuts, aubergines, maize, macabo, taro and cassava. |
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| You can use taro as a substitute for maize or other grains. |
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| The plant is known in Bengali as 'pani kochu', and in English as taro or eddoe. |
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| There is a market in Luganville where local food such as manioc, taro, yam, cabbage and other freshly grown island staples are sold. |
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| The water plant elephant ear or taro can be used as fish food. |
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| Agricultural products include coconuts, tomatoes, melons, taro, breadfruit, fruits, pigs and chickens. |
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| Sometimes a starch, such as cassava, taro in coconut milk, or rice, is served instead. |
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| A more recent example has been the Taro Leaf Blight, which threatened to wipe out the taro crop of at least one South Pacific country, a crop that was essential to the food security of that country. |
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| If you find elephant ear foliage attractive, plant a taro tuber. |
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| Some cuisine also incorporates a broad variety of produce and locally grown agricultural products, including tomatoes, sweet Maui onions, taro, and macadamia nuts. |
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