THE?EDDO?PLANT is, for some, a rarity, but the root was once a staple in the Barbadian diet, consumed daily in working class Barbadian homes.
Even the young leaves were cooked with rice, which many an elderly person remembers as eddo pippy and rice.
Here, workers weeding the eddo field at Foursquare, St Philip, yesterday. (JS)
Eddoes fuh so!
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