taro
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And yellowfin tuna with dashes of avocado and taro chips?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The restaurant is famous for its taro ball desserts, grass jelly and shaved ice - treats not normally found on the menu in Yorkshire, but a popular treat for many in Taiwan and surrounding countries.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024
“It hurts,” said Foster Ampong, 65, who has family members who lost homes in Lahaina and spends much of his time in Olowalu helping other relatives farm taro.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
A Lahaina stream sustains Keʻeaumoku Kapu’s taro patches on his ancestral lands deep in Kauaula Valley in the mountains above Lahaina.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian contains words for many tropical crops like taro, breadfruit, bananas, yams, and coconuts, for which no word can be reconstructed in Proto-Austronesian.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The magic here is quite clear: stones resembling taros are buried in the taro field to promote the growth of taros.
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by Jevons, F. B. (Frank Byron)
Fishing one day a week and cultivating a few yams and taros on another day would supply their food, and the women made tappa for their few garments out of the bark of trees.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh
There only remained the scented taros, so that picking again a mandatory arrow, he ascertained who would go and carry away the taros: whereupon a very puny and very delicate rat was heard to assent.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
The sacrifices to the spirits consist of bananas, sugar-cane, and fish, never of taros or yams.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
Yams, taros, sugar-canes, bananas all grow there in profusion and without cultivation.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
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World Cuisine - Introductory
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