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
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
After the school closed, the program held classes outdoors, away from the burn zone, and focused on cultural learning such as making bamboo trumpets and working in taro patches.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2023
They speak Austronesian languages closely related to those of the New Guinea region, and their main crops are the Austronesian package that included taro, yams, bananas, coconuts, and breadfruit.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Our yams and our taros even now are suffering from it.
From The Great Taboo by Grant Allen
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
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
It consisted of pigeon, chickens, taros, and yams, but poor Mataafa, who had previously adjourned for evening service, could not share the birds because it was a fast day.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
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 Sir James George Frazer
Vocabulary lists containing taro
World Cuisine - Introductory
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