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E Ekomomai Tiki Centralite Portland, OR Joined: Sep 09, 2005 Posts: 32	E Ekomomai Posted posted on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 4:18 PM My last foray into eating tobacco leaves was when my uncle handed me a pinch of Skoal when I was nine. Talk about a retch-fest, it was like swallowing a cigar-flavored grenade. With mint. I kind of like Taro leaves. If they're cooked thoroughly enough, they're nice and tender and taste pretty good. As for fermented poi - didn't try that. Supposedly the "ambient environment" provides the correct flora for fermentation, though in my kitchen that flora may not be as helpful/friendly as the kind you'd find in the tropics: may produce something horribly wrong.

My last foray into eating tobacco leaves was when my uncle handed me a pinch of Skoal when I was nine. Talk about a retch-fest, it was like swallowing a cigar-flavored grenade. With mint.

I kind of like Taro leaves. If they're cooked thoroughly enough, they're nice and tender and taste pretty good.

As for fermented poi - didn't try that. Supposedly the "ambient environment" provides the correct flora for fermentation, though in my kitchen that flora may not be as helpful/friendly as the kind you'd find in the tropics: may produce something horribly wrong.

Post #543618 by Ekomomai on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 4:18 PM