Standing water has rotted cassava yet to be harvested from fields, leaving families with little food to eat this season. Photo by Astrid de Valon/Trocaire.
Photograph all about Cassava vs Yams
Standing water has rotted cassava yet to be harvested from fields, leaving families with little food to eat this season. Photo by Astrid de Valon/Trocaire.
During certain seasons of the year, these goodies come out! A special breed of purple yams that are sooo soo good!
The word Yam is believed to derive from to African word nyami, to eat.
Yams are toxic if eaten raw but safe after they are cooked.
Bi tua is a sweet reed with a bubblegum like flavour and green colour used in Thai dishes to add a unique flavour to the dessert. You can see it in the background of the photograph.
Just as you have candied (glacéd) lemon and candied orange in the west, so we have candied cassava root in Asia. Once candied the cassava root is chewier and stickier than other candied fruit, due to its natural guminess.