Cassava crisis: the deadly food that doubles as a vital Venezuelan crop (2017)

Re:Cassava crisis: the deadly food that doubles as a vital V... by mahesh_rm on Thursday July 12, 2018 @01:41PM (#17516893)

It is amongst the cheapest edible things you can find here in Colombia, and assume across all South America, but then again, price of agricultural goods here is more or less close to zero if compared to price of them same goods when imported in North America / Europe / Australia.

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Re:Cassava crisis: the deadly food that doubles as a vital V... by adrian_mrd on Thursday July 12, 2018 @04:25PM (#17518314)

Interesting. Is it easy to purchase Cassava Flour? (as opposed to the root vegetable or other Cassava products like Tapioca pearls).

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Re:Cassava crisis: the deadly food that doubles as a vital V... by Anarch157a on Thursday July 12, 2018 @07:04PM (#17519341)

Here in Brazil you can fill a shopping cart with the stuff in ant Carrefour. For restaurants, specially the ones that serve feijoada or barbecue*, is not hard to find it in 50kg sacs.

Manioc flour is the main ingredient in farofa, an essential side dish for both feijoada and bbq.

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Re:Cassava crisis: the deadly food that doubles as a vital V... by htmk on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:30PM (#17520318)

And it's delicious in all sorts of dishes.

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