taro
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The furthest-flung food mentioned in the buffet of emails I received was Lau lau, Hawaii’s pork-and-fish dish that is wrapped and steamed in taro leaves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
By 10 p.m. at the Seafood City in North Hills, at least 500 people are dancing in the produce section, next to rows of saba bananas, fresh taro leaves and bok choy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
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
Some plants, such as certain species of yams, taro, and arrowroot, are cultivated in southern New Guinea but also grow wild in northern Australia and were gathered by Aborigines there.
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 F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
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 Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
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 H. Bencraft Joly
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 Sir James George Frazer
Samoa itself provided skinny chickens, some kind of pigeon, yams, taros, and of course fish.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
Vocabulary lists containing taro
World Cuisine - Introductory
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