It was a casserole of plump green pigeons and wild mushrooms, with side dishes of steamed yellow yams, cassava cakes, and banana fritters.

Bolo de mandioca (cassava cake)

World record: largest cassava cake (100m)

For dessert, point to sweet cassava cake.

It is also used in making cassava cake, a popular pastry.

In Jamaica, cassava is traditionally made into bammy, a small fried cassava cake inherited from the native Arawak Indians.

In Belize, cassava is traditionally made into bammy, a small fried cassava cake inherited from the Garifuna.

It is made into bibingka, suman, pudding, chips, cassava cake, cassava balls, pancakes, or coated with caramelized sugar.

Women draw designs on their cassava cakes, embroider capes and sew a kaleidoscope of color patches into the cloth they wear.

Leave room for the starchy but sweet cassava cake ($1), in which the tuber is grated very fine, topped with a brown-sugar icing and baked.