There are alternatives to rice—sago,tapiocaand farina.
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Travancore feeds itself on an inadequate diet oftapioca, from the calorie point of view.
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That is what we mean by "mainly"—not "mainly" in the sense of two-thirds rice and one-thirdtapiocaor something like that.
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It appears in this list here after sago andtapioca, and before marmalade.
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On the last—and first—occasion, oatmeal was sandwiched between sago,tapiocaand marmalade.
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Whether rice pudding,tapioca, ground rice or sago, it is always there—not very exciting, not very often chosen, but always there.
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When you do extract it, in that particular kind of cassava we get the material which we all know astapioca.
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Then there are sago,tapioca, sago flour, and bananas which are enormously important.
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Take corn and grain—corn and flour, corn fodder and oil cake, malt, rice, sago,tapioca, macaroni, beans, peas, and lentils.
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Ordinary articles of food which are entirely imported are rice,tapioca, sago, sugar, bananas, oranges, cocoa, coffee, and tea.
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Also, there has been an improvement of even the lazy man's crop, such as manioc (the stuff with whichtapiocais made) or cassava.
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During the occupation the population had to live largely ontapioca, which as a staple foodstuff is unpopular and nutritionally inadequate.
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Of more importance is the financial dependence of the country ontapioca.
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The increase referred to is due to larger imports of cassava (ortapioca) in the form of flour or starch, other than the foodstuff tapioca, which rose from 205,000 cwts.
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These are mainly foods such as tea, coffee, cocoa, potatoes; butter and cooking fat; dried fruits; and a range of farinaceous products such as flour, rice, sago andtapioca.
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