So, they would actually cook the yam, they would cook the plantain, and they would use, you know, the mortar and pestle to actually pound it, you know.
The banks of the Santa Cruz River in southeastern Arizona were described in 1855 as " covered with poplars and willows, ash trees and plantains, oaks and walnut trees." But a century later the river was gone.
And yet the combination of flavours and kind of the journey that gets to that plate of food to make griot, pikliz, and fried plantain is completely new.
Government officials said they banned products that could be replaced by other materials, such as bamboo spoons, plantain trays, and wooden ice-cream sticks.