casaba

Alfred Hitchcock used 78 shots, 52 edits and a casaba melon to piece together the seminal shower scene in his 1960 thriller, “Psycho.”

One day, after touring fields for a few hours, Miles went to a farmer’s home to find that a family had cooked her casaba roots.

“I have a weakness for casaba melons. I’ve always had a weakness for casaba melons.”

A prop man sounded the scene by knifing casaba melons.

Women from Kenya to Liberia now plant and tend the key food crops like corn, sorghum, millet, sweet potatoes, casaba and peas.