CARACAS, VENEZUELA – Tulio Linares saw four of his relatives and a neighbor die one by one in Venezuela. It all happened within a week, following a family meal where they had ingested one of the few ...

Cassava root is a staple in African and Latin-American cooking that’s gaining traction in the States. Try these yuca recipes. Out of nowhere, Americans have found cassava. Also called yuca, cassava is ...

You might not be familiar with yuca, but if you've ever wondered where tapioca comes from, look no further than this delicious tuber! Yuca, also known as cassava root, is a vegetable similar in size ...

An intensive international effort to improve the nutritional value of cassava -- a staple food for millions of poverty stricken people in sub-Sahara Africa and other areas -- has led to development of ...

Stephen Lemons is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer. Southern California chefs are experimenting with the versatility of that sticky, fibrous root vegetable known as yuca, cassava or manioc. Had I ...

Yuca root is the unsung hero of the vegetable world. The root veggie is known by multiple names including cassava, manioc and yuca – not to be confused with yucca, the native perennial shrub with ...

Peel the cassava completely, cut into thirds, and then cut each third in half vertically. Remove the indigestible core, and cut into bite-sized portions. Rinse the chopped cassava to remove excess ...

Is it yuca or yucca? For many of us, those waxy brown tubers are more like yuck. But, for those in the know, they're a beloved staple. Before leaving the cuisine of the Caribbean, let's take a look at ...