casabe Archives - Life Bites https://www.biteslife.com/tag/casabe/ Recipes and culture Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:39:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.biteslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-logo_479162_print2_1_615x512-32x32.png casabe Archives - Life Bites https://www.biteslife.com/tag/casabe/ 32 32 47065050 A falta de pan, casabe. https://www.biteslife.com/a-falta-de-pan-casabe/ https://www.biteslife.com/a-falta-de-pan-casabe/#respond Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:59:00 +0000 http://biteslife.com/a-falta-de-pan-casabe/ Literary translation: “In the absence of bread, cassava bread”. “Casabe” is bread made of grated cassava root (yucca). Yucca root is abundant in Hispaniola island and was a staple of the native Taino inhabitants. Cassava bread is part of the Taino heritage and the recipe, as well as the look of it hasn’t changed much […]

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]]> https://www.biteslife.com/a-falta-de-pan-casabe/feed/ 0 3634 La Marchanta https://www.biteslife.com/la-marchanta/ https://www.biteslife.com/la-marchanta/#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 03:38:03 +0000 http://tuttysan.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/la-marchanta/ Every week, she shows up at my mother’s kitchen door with a big bag of Casabe and a wide smile. A flat, mildly tasty and rare bread, Cassava bread is one of the few truly authentic meals Dominicans inherited from our long extinguished native ancestors, the Taino Indians. Dulce, who is as sweet as her […]

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