Author: Walter Henricks Hodge

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-19

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9780267047192

Excerpt from The Dasheen: A Tropical Root Crop for the South In general, tubers are superior in quality to the often coarser corms, and so are usually preferred by the trade. The color of cooked dasheens just beneath the skin is purplish. The flesh of the corms and of any tubers that have sent up leaves is usually more or less tinged with violet, though occasionally it lacks this colora tion. Violet-colored dasheens are Often more rich in flavor than those of other color forms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.