Arvi / colocasia or a variant? --srs
> On 05-Aug-2016, at 8:46 AM, Shenoy N <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's a small, potato-like tuber available in southern Karnataka and > Kerala. It's called koo'k in konkani and is a lot like a potato to eat. > Anyonr heard of it? Is that a separate, indigenous species or is it a > variant of the potato? Very tasty, though a proper pain to skin (you have > to put them in a gunny sack and rub them in order to skin them.) > > Narendra Shenoy > >> On 5 Aug 2016 6:56 a.m., "Udhay Shankar N" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Bruce A. Metcalf < >> [email protected] >>>> wrote: >>> >>> I'm curious to know how potatoes became part of Indian cuisine. Is this >>>> Peruvian tuber replacing something else native to the subcontinent, or >> is a >>>> an addition not previously seen? >>> >>> >>> This may help: >>> >>> http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp- >>> sci-tech-and-agri/potato-historically-important- >>> vegetable/article1447001.ece >>> >> >> Oops, slipped by Sidin. >>
