DASHEEN

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books on: Dasheen  - 41 results

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Economic Botany: A Textbook of Useful Plants and Plant Products
Book by Albert F. Hill; McGraw-Hill, 1952
Subjects: Botany, Economic
...Colocasia. Taros and dasheens are very similar in...185, Tubers of the dasheen Colocasia esculenta...S.D.A., The Dasheen as a Root Crop for the...baked or toasted. The dasheen C. esculenta has large...potato. Since 1913 dasheens have been grown as a...
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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
Book by Blanche H. Gelfant, Lawrence Graver; Columbia University Press, 2000
Subjects: American Fiction--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--20th Century--Dictionaries, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Short Stories, American--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Short Stories, American--Dictionaries
...and the like. The mother instructs: when you are growing dasheen, make sure it gets plenty of water or else it makes your throat...child before it even becomes a child. Singing benna, growing dasheen, knowing when blackbirds might not be blackbirds, and herbal...
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Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures
Book by Maureen Warner-Lewis; University of the West Indies Press, 2003
Subjects: Acculturation--Caribbean Area--History, Africa, Central--Religious Life And Customs, Africa, Central--Social Life And Customs, Blacks--Caribbean Area--History, Caribbean Area--Civilization--African Influences, Caribbean Area--Religious Life And Customs, Caribbean Area--Social Life And Customs
...crops such as tannia Xanthosoma sagithifolium and the related dasheen. The latter was called malanga in Trinidad, the stress falling...leaves Castillo Mathieu 1995, 81 . It is applied to either dasheen or eddoe taro in Cuba and Puerto Rico, as well as Haiti and...
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Adolphus, a Tale
Book by William Noy Wilkins, Lise Winer; University Press of the West Indies, 2001
Subjects: Racially Mixed People--Trinidad And Tobago--Fiction, Slavery--Trinidad And Tobago--Fiction, Trinidad And Tobago--Fiction
...calaloo: Actually the leaves of Colocasia esculenta, the edible dasheen tuber (English taro ). ( Arum maculatum has a similar flower...plant.) Callaloo is made from dark green leaves, usually dasheen, cooked with ochro (English okra ), usually including coconut...
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Latin America: Countrysides and United Regions
Book by Robert S. Platt; McGraw-Hill, 1942
Subjects: Latin America--Description And Travel
...U0304 raca . Head man of an Indian group. curare co+U006F+U0304 rara . A paralyzing drug made of herbs by forest Indians. dasheen. A tropical root crop. divi-divi. Pod of a small leguminous tree, used for tanning. drift. Horizontal passageway in...
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journal articles on: Dasheen  - 6 results

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"How-To" Manuals for Hitmen: Paladin Press, a Triple Murder, and First Amendment Protection of Technical Information
Journal article by Juliet Dee; Communications and the Law, Vol. 23, 2001
Subjects: Censorship--Laws, regulations, etc., Freedom of speech--Laws, regulations, etc., Paladin Press--Products, Technical manuals--Laws, regulations, etc.
...a recipe in the book which called for dasheen, a plant commonly known as "elephants...book, for failure to warn that uncooked dasheen roots are poisonous. She charged that the recipes for dasheen plant dishes were inadequately tested...
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Taro Planthoppers (Tarophagus Spp.) in Australia and the Origins of Taro (Colocasia Esculenta) in Oceania
Journal article by Peter J. Matthews; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 38, 2003
...and dispersal of taro. Another virus, Dasheen Mosaic Virus (DMV), is common worldwide...Greber, R. S. and D. E. Shaw (1986) Dasheen Mosaic Virus in Queensland. Australasian...F. W. and R. D. Hartman (1986) Dasheen Mosaic Virus and its Control in Cultivated...
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The Creative Ethos of the African Diaspora: Performance Aesthetics and the Fight for Freedom and Identity1
Journal article by Clinton Hutton; Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 53, 2007
...One pot of soup, for example, could contain calalu, or dasheen leaves and perhaps okras, yams, cocos, dumplings, peas...from just vegetable matter: calalu leaves and stalks, or dasheen leaves, or even Spanish needle leaves and okras and tubers...
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Determinants of Mental Ability on a Caribbean Island, and the Mystery of the Flynn Effect
Journal article by Gerhard Meisenberg, Elliott Lawless, Eleonor Lambert, Anne Newton; Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 46, 2006
Subjects: Adult literacy, Age, Children & youth, Developing countries--LDCs, Education, Industrialized nations, Intelligence tests, Islands, School systems
...childhood. Included were seven types of food: "provisions" (starchy staples including yams, cassava, sweet potato, tannia, dasheen and plantain), beans, bread, milk, fish, meat, and fruits/vegetables. Respondents were asked whether they ate these...
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Our Maroon in the Now-Lost Landscapes of Montserrat
Journal article by Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher; The Geographical Review, 2001
Subjects: Human geography--Research, Montserrat--Social aspects, Plantations--History
...Centre Hills. On earlier visits I had studied the ecological practices of small-plot horticulturalists who raised bananas, dasheen, sweet potatoes, and other subsistence crops on the steeply terraced slopes (Berleant-Schiller and Pulsipher 1986...
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magazine articles on: Dasheen  - 8 results

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Montserrat's Secret Gardens
Magazine article by Raymond Sokolov; Natural History, April 1992
Subjects: Agriculture, Archaeology, Fairs & exhibitions, History, Montserrat, Pulsipher, Lydia Mihelic, Slavery, Social life & customs
...such as the tuberous rhizome called dasheen, one of the various starchy vegetables...first she reminds Garrick to bring some dasheen down from her mountain ground at Gadinge...garden at Hog Island.... The fertile dasheen plot was first worked by Judy Congo...
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Demographic Diversity: In Two Very Different Caribbean Countries-Trinidad and Tobago and Belize-The Faces of the People Reflect a Rich Ethnic Mix
Magazine article by Suzanne Murphy-Larronde; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 60, July 2008
Subjects: Belize--Social aspects, Indigenous peoples--Social aspects, Trinidad and Tobago--Social aspects
...The West Indian-inspired callaloo--a creamy blend of dasheen leaves, crab, okra, coconut milk, herbs and spices...and ingredients known as "ground provisions" that include dasheen, sweet potatoes, and green fig or unripe bananas, along...
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Anchoring Progress in Tradition
Magazine article by Joan Iaconetti; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 46, November 1994
Subjects: St. Vincent and the Grenadines--Description and travel
...foliage of coconut palms, bananas, breadfruit, and arrowroot; farmers grow squashes called christophenes, tubers called dasheen and eddoes, plus nutmeg, peanuts, heliconia, bougainvillea, and hibiscus. But the copra and sea island cotton plantations...
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St. Lucia's Creole Core: Language and Culture Play a Key Role in This Caribbean Nation's Struggle for a New Path to Economic Development
Magazine article by Suzanne Murphy-Larronde; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 58, July 2006
Subjects: Creoles--Social aspects, Economic development--Analysis, Economic development--Saint Lucia, Economic development--Social aspects, Saint Lucia--Economic aspects, Saint Lucia--Social aspects
...favorites are stewed shrimp in coconut milk, smoked herring with roasted breadfruit and avocado, callaloo soup with crabmeat and dasheen greens, and the national dish--boiled unripened bananas and fish fritters, served with cucumbers--commonly known as...
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America's First Food Writer
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 101, October 1992
Subjects: Bread, Caribbean area, Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506), Cooking, History, Recipes
...sea of green, chaotic to the naive eye but as orderly as an Iowa farm once you learn to separate the banana plants from the dasheen (taro) and the red-stemmed stands of cassava. Nothing is accidental, least of all the processing of the cassava. It...
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newspaper articles on: Dasheen  - 9 results

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NATURE'S GIFT; Pat Welland Has a Turtley Terrific Time in Breathtaking Tobago
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), June 10, 2006
...chickpeas, plantains and calaloo, the thick soup based on dasheen leaves, okra and coconut milk, washed down with beer. At...beef or goat. Saheena are deepfried patties of spinach, dasheen and split peas with a mango sauce. Slake your thirst with...
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NATURE'S GIFT; Pat Welland Has a Turtley Terrific Time in Breathtaking Tobago TRINIDAD & TOBAGO England's Second Opponents - June 15, Nuremburg at 5pm
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), June 10, 2006
...chickpeas, plantains and calaloo, the thick soup based on dasheen leaves, okra and coconut milk, washed down with beer. At...beef or goat. Saheena are deepfried patties of spinach, dasheen and split peas with a mango sauce. Slake your thirst with...
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A Taste of the Exotic at Coventry Market; Food DO You Know What a Garden Egg Is or How to Cook a Breadfruit? Why Not Break from Tradition and Discover the Wonderful Range of Unusual Fruits and Vegetables on Offer in Coventry?
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), October 14, 2006
Subjects: Cookery, Cookery (Eggs), Cookery (Fruit), Cooking, Eggs, Eggs (Food), Fruit, Fruits (Food), Produce industry
...the changes and swop roast potatoes for roast yam, swede for dasheen and cabbage for saag and enjoy a meal with a real Afro Caribbean...on Daisys stall, were sweet potatoes, yams, yellow yams, dasheen, eddoes, plantain and cassava - to name but a few. Customer...
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Easy-Going Grenada ... for When the Going Gets Tough; When Singer Billy Ocean Needs to Relax He Heads Straight for the Resilient, Welcoming Isle Where His Father Was Born
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 26, 2009
Subjects: Singers
...vegetarian so I prefer the national dish. Its called oil down, a one- pot meal of vegetables such as breadfruit, plantain and dasheen with spices, hot peppers and seasonings. Sometimes I go down to the river and slow cook it the old- fashioned way on three...
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TROPICAL DEBATE; Radio Clyde News Girl Lorraine Herbison Finds Heaven in Tobago
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), June 24, 2007
...loved delicacies such as roti, a pancake-style roll filled with curried chicken or vegetables, and callaloo, a hot soup of dasheen leaves, okra and coconut milk. Where Tobago is peaceful, Trinidad is much more developed with its gas and oil industries...
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encyclopedia articles on: Dasheen  - 2 results

 
 
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Dasheen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DASHEEN see arum . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Arum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...multicolored foliage, is sometimes mistakenly called elephants-ear, a name properly applied to taro ( Colocasia esculenta ) or dasheen. Taro, with its large, starchy corms or rootstocks (characteristic of the arum family) is a major source of food in the...


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