[Sca-cooks] Taro was: looking for lentil recipe
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Fri Mar 11 12:18:00 PST 2011
I wrote:
>In looking up various meanings of "colocasia", one dictionary says that
>it is "arum colocasia" and calls it "Egyptian bean".
And Bear replied:
>They are apparently referencing Palladius who identified "colocaseum"
>as Faba Aegyptica or the Egyptian bean. Arum colocasia is an entirely
>different plant, Colocasia esculenta, AKA taro. Some ancients also
>confused C. esculenta with the water arum, Calla palustris.
That explains a lot. I'd looked up the "arum colocasia" on the Internet
and found a number of different references to plants other than
"colocasia". The properties were different and I wondered which one(s)
were more edible!
Alys K.
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