Add Value to taro

Comment to Samoa Observer re 'Talo breakthrough'

Talo breakthrough, well done farmers
To add value to our talo for domestic use I suggest add to our menu at the food outlets the following - taro-eleni/wahoo/fresh fish vegetable pie or patties, chicken taro cakes with salad, pisupo-taro vegetable quiche, pisupo green pepper pizza with taro, octopus and fried taro with an elegant tomato coconut sauce - are just a few that come to mind.I’m sure the local chefs will find many ways beyond fa’alifu and umu baked to put our taro on the market. The message in all these creative recipes is to give the locals a job to scrape the taro and the farmers to grow more. Malo galue. Meripa Weir.