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Steve Pope
Guest
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.
Steve
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.
Steve