I ate at a restaurant recently whose on-line menu stated they had deep-fried "yuca". I take this to be the Spanish word for manioc root.
On arriving at the restaurant, the menu referred to deep-fried "yucca", the familiar cactus-like plant from the southwest and Mexico. Helen Russell in _Foraging for Dinner_ writes about eating the flowers of the yucca plant, but not the roots.
In any case, what I was served was deep-fried roots of some sort, I am guessing manioc but maybe yucca roots -- are they edible?
These aren't be any chance the same plant as each other? I'm pretty sure not.
I ate at a restaurant recently whose on-line menu stated they had deep-fried "yuca". I take this to be the Spanish word for manioc root.
On arriving at the restaurant, the menu referred to deep-fried "yucca", the familiar cactus-like plant from the southwest and Mexico. Helen Russell in _Foraging for Dinner_ writes about eating the flowers of the yucca plant, but not the roots.
In any case, what I was served was deep-fried roots of some sort, I am guessing manioc but maybe yucca roots -- are they edible?
These aren't be any chance the same plant as each other? I'm pretty sure not.
I ate at a restaurant recently whose on-line menu stated they had deep-fried "yuca". I take this to be the Spanish word for manioc root.
On arriving at the restaurant, the menu referred to deep-fried "yucca", the familiar cactus-like plant from the southwest and Mexico. Helen Russell in _Foraging for Dinner_ writes about eating the flowers of the yucca plant, but not the roots.
In any case, what I was served was deep-fried roots of some sort, I am guessing manioc but maybe yucca roots -- are they edible?
These aren't be any chance the same plant as each other? I'm pretty sure not.
Well...it COULD be the same plant, but probably not. There are lots of plants called "yucca," and some of them have edible roots. See http://www.anapsid.org/resources/yucca.html for more information.
By the way, the article uses the term "prussic acid." In case you weren't aware, that's a solution of hydrogen cyanide and water.
I ate at a restaurant recently whose on-line menu stated they had deep-fried "yuca". I take this to be the Spanish word for manioc root.
On arriving at the restaurant, the menu referred to deep-fried "yucca", the familiar cactus-like plant from the southwest and Mexico. Helen Russell in _Foraging for Dinner_ writes about eating the flowers of the yucca plant, but not the roots.
In any case, what I was served was deep-fried roots of some sort, I am guessing manioc but maybe yucca roots -- are they edible?
These aren't be any chance the same plant as each other? I'm pretty sure not.
They are not the same plant, and what you had was yuca, which as you say is manioc root. In Costa Rica you see it pretty often, think of it as basically a french fries substitute. -aem
They are not the same plant, and what you had was yuca, which as you say is manioc root. In Costa Rica you see it pretty often, think of it as basically a french fries substitute. -aem
Thats right, I ate it often in Barzil, years ago, where it's called "manteca de terra" or - butter of the earth. Just boiled or steamed it IS incredibly buttery, delicious an low fat!.
In any case, what I was served was deep-fried roots of some sort, I am guessing manioc but maybe yucca roots -- are they edible?
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They are not the same plant, and what you had was yuca, which as you say is manioc root. In Costa Rica you see it pretty often, think of it as basically a french fries substitute. -aem
Thanks. This was a Peruvian restaurant, so it's got to be yuca. Someone probably "corrected" the spelling on the menu.
