Taro, the staple root crop in Ontong Java atoll, is dying due to salinity of the swamp and sandy soil.
Instead, residents share their knowledge with visitors and are paid for it, from how they cook manioc (a staple root vegetable) to where they catch their fish for dinner.
All the cereals are classified under monocots, the legumes, fruits, and nuts under Rosids, and the staple root crops such as potato and sweet potato under Asterids.
After decades of French-based cuisine, followed by Mediterranean flavors and then Spanish modernism, the most trendy ingredients for chefs to work with now include preindustrial Nordic staples: root vegetables, fish roe, wild greens, venison, dried mushrooms, seaweed and cow's milk.
For example, the Kitavan Islanders of Melanesia live as horticulturists with levels of activity comparable to manual workers who take moderate exercise; their dietary staples are root vegetables and fruit, with some consumption of meat and fish, but with little availability of Western foods.
An Italian staple with classical roots (panis focacius being Latin for "hearth bread"), this salty, olive-oil soaked flatbread is found from Bari to Bologna.
However, New Guinea Highlanders, whose main food staples are starchy root crops like sweet potato and taro, are chronically starved for protein, of which the island's dark, bristly pigs traditionally furnished the only large source.
A staple at folk, roots, and bluegrass festivals in North America and Europe, The Paperboys have extensively toured both continents, performing in England, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, France, and Austria.
The beer was tasty and cheap, and many of the meals had hearty Central European staples, including sausages and root vegetables.
However, the specific interactions between Zn and Cd in rice often appear anomalous if compared to those observed in other staple crops, suggesting that root-to-shoot Cd translocation process could be more complex than previously thought.
Acorns were once a dietary staple wherever oak trees took root.
