| From America, the tannia or yautia reached West Africa, which is now the major producer. |
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| The root can be milled into flour, since yautia is very hypoallergenic food and also high in calories. |
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| While the meat is cooking, peel the bananas, yautia, and plantains and put them in salt water. |
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| They listened to reggae music, sniffed spices from Haiti and went across the street to a West Indian grocery, where they picked out foods they had never tried, like a yautia root. |
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| Tannia, also known as yautia, is consumed by the 'indigenous populations', and it is highly appreciated because of its rhizomes and leaves. |
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| A week earlier, DNCD officials intercepted a shipment of drugs hidden in sweet potatoes and yautia at the Autopista Duarte toll area. |
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| Instead, one might think of a serenata, a salad of dried codfish and boiled root vegetables like yautia, name, malanga, green bananas and yuca, in a peppery lime vinaigrette. |
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| First she prepares the outside of the cake, a sticky batter of ground plantains, green bananas, yuca, pumpkin, potato and yautia — a distant cousin of the taro root. |
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| The malanga, or yautia, is a root vegetable,, which resembles a yam. |
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| Yautia, guava and yuca aren't ingredients you'd expect to see on a menu from Alain Ducasse, the Michelin-starred chef from France. |
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