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On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Leigh Cook wrote:
 
> Fufu is a West African dish.  It  is just a stiff, starchy 'mash', eaten
> with the fingers (right hand only!)...
>
> In West Africa, the most common fufu is made from cassava flour, but that is
> not readily available over here, so my West African friends usually make a
> potato fufu - its just mashed potatoes, stiffened with a little extra
> starch, plus salt etc to your taste. - but you can also make yam fufu,
> cornmeal fufu, sweet potato fufu, etc.
 
Tapioca flour is made from cassava root.  How is cassava flour any
different?  Tapioca flour is available from Ener-G Foods.
 
Jane
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