Newsday October 31st, 2020
"A recent article in Forbes magazine espoused the virtues of the humble dasheen bush, more favourably known as callaloo bush. Of course, here in TT callaloo has first place on our Sunday lunch tables along with dishes the likes of coo-coo and provision."
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Dasheen Plant Could Be The Root Of Caribbean Development
Daphne Ewing-ChowSenior Contributor
Food & Drink
Dasheen is among a family of root crops or “ground provisions” grown on the islands of the English-speaking Caribbean, dating back to the early 16th century. Also known as taro, blue food, and kalo, historians say that the crop arrived to the Caribbean aboard Trans-Atlantic slave ships, along with African food culture and agro-ecological knowledge.
Stories are told of African slaves foraging for the large, elephant ear leaves of the dasheen plant to make a stew called callaloo or in cassava fufu, a popular West African staple. Steeped in the trials of a colonial past, dasheen is one of a handful of crops that made their way into diets as a product of resourcefulness and making do with little.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daphneewingchow/2020/10/26/dasheen-pla...
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