Annual Report of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station for 1902 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station for 1902Taro is the chief food plant of the Hawaiians, and the industry in Hawaii represents an-investment of fully and the annual sales amount to more than Furthermore, it is a crop for which no substitute has been found. All parts of the plant are eaten. The root is used as a vegetable, for making Taro-ena, a health food of much value for invalids, and poi, the national Hawaiian food. The leaves are eaten like spinach, the leafstalks like chards or asparagus, and the cooked ¿owers are highly esteemed as a vegetable of extremely delicate flavor. The refuse portions of the root, not used in poi manu facture, are utilized for fattening pigs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.