On 7/23/2015 4:14 PM, dsi1 wrote:

> Taro has so much calcium oxalate shards in it that it's inedible unless you boil the corm and the leaves for quite a while. Beats the heck out of me how the old Hawaiians prepared taro for poi because they didn't have pots to boil taro.
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Tightly woven basket or wooden container filled with water, heated by
dropping red-hot stones into the water.