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With a scraggly stem a few meters tall, a handful of slim branches and modest, hand-shaped leaves, it doesn’t look like ...

Only a few cassava plants can be seen growing beside the rusty land-clearing machines left behind by the military. Without protection provided by the forests - also home to endangered orangutans, she ...

Something is killing Ramadhani Juma’s cassava crop. “Maybe it’s too much water,” he says, fingering clusters of withered yellow leaves on a six-foot-high plant. “Or too much sun.” ...

During the spring and summer the leaves have served as factories where most of the foods necessary for the tree's growth are manufactured. This food-making process takes place in the leaf in numerous ...

Cassava is available year round. It’s quite hard to peel, so it’s easiest to buy it ready prepared and frozen. If you do see it fresh, look for a clear outer skin and white flesh. Cassava ...

It all starts with creating the powder, a process that dates back to 12th-century Japan. (The overall technique of drying, pulverizing, and then mixing whole tea leaves into water to drink dates ...

dried whole-leaf state, but have you ever pondered the idea of grinding them into a powder? Dried bay leaves can be ground at ...

Although fresh leaves are becoming more widely available, they are usually sold dried. The dried bay leaves are more strongly flavoured than fresh ones, but the uses for both are the same.

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