cocoyam

In some situation it is made with plantain or cocoyam.

Sweet potatoes and cocoyam are also important in the local cuisine.

These men introduced the cultivation of cocoa, maize, brown cocoyam etc. to Ekiti.

About 80% of the population is made of sustenance farmers growing food crops such as cocoyam, cassava, beans, maize.

As above, fufu is usually made from cassava, yams, and sometimes combined with cocoyam, plantains, or cornmeal.

Other roasted savoury foods include roasted plantain, maize, yam and cocoyam.

Ufuma is also renowned for its agricultural sector, especially with respect to yam, cassava, palm oil, cocoyam and rice.

It has regional variations and can contain beef, fish, shrimp, pepitas, cassava, taro (cocoyam) leaves, and palm oil.

In Ghana, fufu is mostly made from boiled cassava and unripe plantain beaten together, as well as from cocoyam.

Another factor may have been the arrival of southeast-Asian food crops, notably the AAB plantain, the cocoyam and the water-yam.

The Mount Cameroon habitat, in particular, is threatened by the clearing of forest for the purpose of cocoyam (Colocasia esculenta) farming.

Colocasia (Taro, Cocoyam, Eddoe)

Common names include Elephant-ear, Taro, Cocoyam, Dasheen, Chembu, and Eddoe.

Other important Creole foods are Cowfoot Soup, a thick stew with cocoyam and tripe, and a wide variety of dishes made with fish.

It is called cocoyam in Nigeria, Ghana and Anglophone Cameroon, and macabo in Francophone Cameroon.

The people of Ugbokhare like all other Esanland eat traditional African foods made from Root Tubers like Cassava, Yam, and Cocoyam.

The Bakweri, who are a fishing people of the English-speaking part of Cameroon, use stockfish in flavoring their palm nut or banga soup, which is eaten with a cocoyam pudding called kwacoco.

Cash Crops: Kolanuts, Oil beans, Bread fruit, Black-eyed beans, Brown beans, Yam, Cocoyam, Cow peas, Maize, Cotton and Ground-nuts.

Then we climbed past patches of corn, banana trees and other tropical staples like a kind of tuber called cocoyam, interspersed with coffee trees laden with tiny flowers scented like orange blossoms.

The 'Xanthosoma' genus is closely related, and several common names including 'callaloo' and 'coco' or 'cocoyam' are used to refer to either Taro or domesticated 'Xanthosoma' species which share substantially the same uses.

In traditional Edda society, the kitchen utensils are meant to include pots & ladles, mortar & pestle, broom, mats, fermented cassava, a basket each of maize, cocoyam & melon and a round-species of water-yam (Ajungworo).

Recipes like grapefruit marmalade and hot cross buns speak to a colonial longing for the tastes of the mother country, while others - for roasted stuffed cocoyam and kelewele, deep-fried ripe plantains flavored with salt, pepper and ginger - celebrate more traditional tastes.