Editing Cassava (section)

===Food and drink===

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{{main|Cassava-based dishes}}

There are [[Cassava-based dishes|many ways of cooking cassava]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Opie |first=Frederick Douglass |title=Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |year=2008 |at=chapters 1–2}}</ref> It has to be prepared correctly to remove its toxicity.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-02-09 |title=Cassava: Benefits, toxicity, and how to prepare |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323756 |access-date=2022-03-30 |website=www.medicalnewstoday.com |archive-date=30 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220330124043/https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323756 |url-status=live }}</ref> The root of the sweet variety is mild to the taste, like potatoes; Jewish households sometimes use it in [[cholent]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Manioc Root - Cargo Handbook - the world's largest cargo transport guidelines website |url=https://cargohandbook.com/Manioc_Root |access-date=2022-03-30 |website=cargohandbook.com |archive-date=20 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520225044/https://www.cargohandbook.com/Manioc_Root |url-status=live }}</ref> It can be made into a flour that is used in breads, cakes and cookies. In Brazil, ''[[farofa]]'', a dry meal made from cooked powdered cassava, is roasted in butter, eaten as a side dish, or sprinkled on other food.<ref name="Zeldes-2010">{{cite web |last=Zeldes |first=Leah A. |author-link=Leah A. Zeldes |title=Eat this! Hearty Brazilian feijoada, just in time for Carnival! |work=Dining Chicago |publisher=Chicago's Restaurant & Entertainment Guide |date=February 3, 2010 |url=http://blog.diningchicago.com/2010/02/03/eat-this-hearty-brazilian-feijoada-just-in-time-for-carnival/ |format=|doi=|access-date=February 5, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212233129/http://blog.diningchicago.com/2010/02/03/eat-this-hearty-brazilian-feijoada-just-in-time-for-carnival/ |archive-date=February 12, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In Taiwanese culture, later spread to the United States, cassava "juices" are dried to a fine powder and used to make tapioca, a popular starch used to make bubbles, a chewy topping in [[bubble tea]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sweenie |first=Jennifer |date=2023-04-18 |title=What Is Tapioca And How Do You Cook It? |url=https://www.tastingtable.com/1261349/what-tapioca-cook/ |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=Tasting Table |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[Alcoholic beverage]]s made from cassava include [[cauim]] (Brazil),<ref name="Schwan-2007">{{cite journal |title=Yeast diversity in rice-cassava fermentations produced by the indigenous Tapirapé people of Brazil |last1=Schwan |first1=Rosane F. |last2=Almeida |first2=Euziclei G. |last3=Souza-dias |first3=Maria Aparecida G. |last4=Jespersen |first4=Lene |date=September 2007 |volume=7 |pages=966–972 |journal=FEMS Yeast Research |doi=10.1111/j.1567-1364.2007.00241.x |pmid=17697080 |issue=6 |doi-access=free }}</ref> [[kasiri]] (Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname),<ref>{{cite news |last=van Vark |first=Manon |title=Tribal cures for modern ailments, Surinam |date=28 August 1999 |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/431829.stm |quote=Their staple food is cassava, from which they make cassava bread and brew ''kasiri'', 'cassava beer'.}}</ref> [[parakari]] or kari (Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam),<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Henkel |first=Terry W. |date=2005-03-01 |title=Parakari, an indigenous fermented beverage using amylolytic Rhizopus in Guyana |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/15572536.2006.11832833 |journal=Mycologia |volume=97 |issue=1 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1080/15572536.2006.11832833 |pmid=16389951 |s2cid=218588548}}</ref> and [[nihamanchi]] (South America),<ref>{{cite book |last=Howell |first=Edward |title=Enzyme Nutrition: The Food Enzyme Concept |publisher=Avery Publishing Group |year=1995 |isbn=978-0895292216 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h9EgG8O7GgIC&dq=Howell+Enzyme&pg=PP1 |page=49}}</ref>

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