It's not often you order plantain hash with fried ceviche and come out smiling.

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Switch back to his traditional crop, plantain, and he may earn one-twentieth of that figure.

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Well, Rodney held up his lucky plantain that served him well for the second straight day.

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"Sugar cane was the single hardest hit followed by plantain and bananas, " the report says.

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The Plant tissue culture is focusing on other staple foods like cassava, yam, plantain, etc.

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Here, the green plantain mofongo was served as a side dish, the perfect starchy accompaniment to fried chicken or pork.

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The hint of sugar from the sweet plantain blended perfectly with the fluffier cassava and the savoury, starchier green plantain.

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