Cassava, an essential food crop in the tropics, has an obscure presence in colder regions. It was first tamed in the Brazilian Amazon around 10,000 years ago, and even with its inconspicuous looks—a ...

The three staple crops dominating modern diets - corn, rice and wheat - are familiar to Americans. However, fourth place is held by a dark horse: cassava.While nearly unknown in temperate climates, ...

All the information you need is available on the www.worldwithoutcancer.com website. This letter is about how manioc, which also contains Vitamin B17, has the potential to combat cancer. My story ...

Gabon (French Equatorial Africa): the rind of the manioc is eaten during times of famine. It is prepared similarly to manioc itself. The rind is cut into small pieces and washed in running water for ...

Ganga Zumba’s subjects used African-style forges to make metal plows and scythes for use in Indian-style mixed fields of corn, rice, and manioc and agricultural forests of palm and breadfruit.

It’s suppertime in the Amazon of lowland Bolivia, and Ana Cuata Maito is stirring a porridge of plantains and sweet manioc over a fire smoldering on the dirt floor of her thatched hut ...

He could never be induced to eat flesh or any kind of cooked food, subsisting entirely on manioc and other roots; nor would he sleep in a recumbent position, but when resting preferred to squat on ...

Documentary about the cultivation of cassava, a plant used to make tapioca. The film begins with a presentation of Madagascar and its capital Tananarive, then shows us how cassava is grown.

They grow sugar cane too, bananas, manioc, etc. The men are said by the Portuguese to be very intelligent, but very wild. The women wear the lip ornament, which is a ring, about four inches in ...

Watched by three colleagues, he is cooking a corn or manioc paste, known locally as foufou, in a pot over a fire on the ground. Bruno says he begged the ingredients from the nearby Protestant church.

Raw cassava is an emerging presence, too, showing up under the names “yuca” and “manioc” in stores catering to Latin American, African and Asian populations.