Subject: Re: Persisting Taro, Bok
< Greetings, locally we have a grower that produces 10,000 Colocasia tubers
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< E-mail- mansell@chuma.cas.usf.edu
Dear Dick,
Sounds like they are cultivating the "edoes" variety of
Colocasia, not the "dasheen" type. Edoes develop as smaller cormlets or
tubers off the center "mother" rhizome, while dasheen develops as a main
central tuber that produces few or no small tubers, and are larger. They are
quite different in taste and texture also. Edoes "keep" for a longer period
after harvest than dasheen, and are easier to grow "dry",as they do not
require flooded conditions.. Perhaps you could enquire if they produce any
dasheen, as I remember reading that a dasheen cultivar that the Americans
called "Trinidad" [probably our "white dasheen"] was grown commercially in the
U.S., I believe in the Carolinas.
By the way, I`ll soon be publishing in this forum a receipe for edoes,
passed on to me from my maternal Grandmother on the Island of Barbados, W.I.,
called "`Bajan slipery-dips in devil sauce" that we served in my home on a
regular basis. It complements any fish meal. Meanwhile, try them in place
of potatoes in any soup, I think you`ll like them!
Cheers, J.
[ju-bo@msn.com]
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