taro

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

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

On a recent November day, he laid several broad taro leaves out across his hand, which he cupped to form a bowl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Once established in New Guinea, the sweet potato overtook taro as the highland’s leading crop, because of its shorter time required to reach maturity, higher yields per acre, and greater tolerance of poor soil conditions.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Mark Catesby, in his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, London, 1781, describes briefly under the name of arum maximum Aegypticum a plant which was doubtless one of the tanyahs or taros.

From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Joseph Dommers Vehling

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

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

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