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Taro, Like Ube, Is a Popular Veggie Similar to Sweet Potatoes — but What Does It Taste Like?
Nobody, it seems, can agree about one of the world's oldest cultivated plants — taro — let alone how it tastes. The root vegetable cousin of the potato, taro is a staple of Asian cuisine but ...
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Root Vegetable Health Benefits
Root vegetables are grown underground at the base ... which is eaten both cooked and raw all over the world. Taro root, which is poisonous if eaten raw. Potatoes. Their sprouting buds ("eyes ...
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Reviving Hawaii’s Most Valued Crop
This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hawaiian legend holds that taro is the sacred ancestor of all Hawaiian people. The staple root crop is so valued that ...
Food & Wine6y
Root Vegetables
F&W's guide offers recipes for every season and introduces you to unfamiliar root vegetables from other cuisines (think yuca or taro).