Sentences with manioc
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M m - Fried manioc was somewhat more dense than traditional French fries but almost identical in taste.
- The most important Native American cultivars were maize, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, and manioc or cassava.
- Behind every green hill there's another hill, with eucalyptus groves and banana trees and terraced fields of sweet potato and manioc and corn.
- Grains, particularly maize, and manioc are incorporated into almost all meals.
- Staple foods, apart from sorghum and millet, are maize, manioc, potatoes, rice, sesame, and some bean species.
- Another downside is the plant's relatively short growing season; manioc, peanuts, and potatoes, in contrast, provide cash flow throughout the year.
- Plantains and manioc are important foods in much of the country, especially the north and the Mosquitia.
- Traditional rural staples are sweet potatoes, manioc, yams, corn, rice, pigeon peas, cowpeas, bread, and coffee.
- In the south, rice, corn, and manioc are the primary starches; millet, sorghum, and yams are preferred in central and northern communities.
- Some alternate breakfast foods include boiled manioc, maize porridge, or fried cakes made of rice flour.
- There are songs about fishing, planting, and how to use a hoe, paddle a canoe, or pound manioc with a giant mortar and pestle.
- The growing and processing of manioc into cassava bread and farina was once a major subsistence activity, but now wheat bread is widely available from local bakeries.
- Banana plants are interspersed among the manioc, avoiding the monoculture typical of industrialized agriculture.
- Cultivation of crops is limited to the coastal area, where the population is largely concentrated; rice and manioc are the major crops.
- The agricultural products are sugar, rice, manioc, cocoa, vegetables, and bananas.
- The blame for this may lie with its national dish, feijoada, which consists principally of beans with pork served with manioc flour.