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Taro, also known as Tara or Kalo (Colocasia antiquorum) is a herb of the arum family, natural order Araceae, cultivated in Pacific islands and the Caribbean for its starchy, edible root and leaves (callaloo). Taro has a large tuberous rootstock from which large oval, heart-shaped leaves spring direct. The entire plant is very acrid, but the acrid taste is removed by boiling. The uncooked leaves are poisonous, but after boiling may be eaten like spinach and are known as callaloo.
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Zena Marshall is a Kenyan-born actress. She was born in 1926 at Nairobi. She played 'Miss Taro' in the 1962 James Bond film 'Dr No'.
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In Samoan mythology, Losi is the son of the creator Tangaloa. He was sent to earth with the taro as a present to the people, and as its protective god.
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TARO is an abbreviation for Territorial Army Reserve of Officers
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Callaloo is the Jamaican name for the young leaves of two distinct plants; the taro plant and Chinese spinach, eaten as a vegetable. It is not, as some cookery books suggest, a Jamaican name for spinach.
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Luau is a Hawaiian dish of taro leaves usually prepared with coconut cream and octopus or chicken.
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Poi is a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro which has been baked, pounded to a paste, and fermented.
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The Gilbert Islands or Kingsmill Group are a string of sixteen tiny islands and atolls in the Pacific Ocean, stretching in a crescent from north to south on the equator. They were declared a British protectorate in 1892 and settled as a British colony in 1916. They are of coral formation, and all low and not fertile. Their chief products were traditionally mostly the coconut, pandanus, taro, and the bread-fruit tree. The original islanders were a handsome people of mixed race. The women much smaller in proportion than the men, with delicate features and slight figures.
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