Cassava. Manioc. Yuca. Fleshy, starchy tubers with tough brown skin and crisp white flesh, originally from Brazil but now widely cultivated. There are two types, sweet and bitter. Avoid the bitter one. Throughout the Amazon basin there are 26 varieties, each thriving under different conditions. The process of making it into flour or tapioca removes the toxins.
Carol Field in her excellent book 'The Italian Baker' describes this as a codeword for fine flour, as the strong wheats of the US and Canadian prairies absorb considerably more water and produce larger and more extensive doughs than that from the poor soils of Italy.
A variety of butterhead lettuce, a type of soft, buttery lettuce with a small, slightly loose head but with good flavour.
Cassava. Manioc. Yuca. Fleshy, starchy tubers with tough brown skin and crisp white flesh, originally from Brazil but now widely cultivated. There are two types, sweet and bitter. Avoid the bitter one. Throughout the Amazon basin there are 26 varieties, each thriving under different conditions. The process of making it into flour or tapioca removes the toxins.
The man on horseback is a type of pleasant edible mushroom of yellowish colour. It is said to be hazardous in some circumstance, but I am not certain whether that it is because it is easily confused with other toxic mushrooms or because it needs to be cooked before it is eaten. If in doubt, I would steer clear of it. (If gathering mushrooms you must be absolutely certain what you have before you eat them as many are very poisonous.)
A large crustacean from the eastern coast of North America and the Mediterranean related to a crab, rather than a prawn, larger than a prawn and bearing some resemblance to a praying mantis.
