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On 7/23/2015 2:25 PM, S Viemeister wrote:
> 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.
>>

> Tightly woven basket or wooden container filled with water, heated by
> dropping red-hot stones into the water.


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