Christina Milian

I make a great lasagna. I also like making piccadillo. It's a Cuban dish with ground beef, tomato sauce, garlic and olives served over rice, with plantains. My ex-husband and all my boyfriends love it.

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Sanya Richards-Ross

My favorite healthy foods are Jamaican chicken soup, Jamaican chicken stew peas, Jamaican brown stew chicken, plantains and banana chips.

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Plantains are often used in cooking, especially in tropical cuisine, and can be prepared in various ways.

Cooking Context

Unlike bananas, plantains are not typically eaten raw due to their starchy nature, which becomes tender and sweeter when cooked.

Not Always Sweet

Plantains play a significant role in many cultures and are a staple food in African, Caribbean, and Latin American diets.

Cultural Staple

The plantain plant is often considered a weed and can be found in gardens, yards, and roadsides.

Weed in Gardens

The leaves of the plantain weed are typically long, narrow, and shaped like a lancet, which makes them easily recognizable.

Lancet-shaped Leaves

Historically, plantain weeds have been used for their medicinal properties to treat ailments like wounds and coughs.

Medicinal Uses

 and introduced them to cultivation, to agriculture. And so they grow a lot of plantain and banana a bit of rice as well. And corn, which is originally from that part of the world. And they do "slash and burn" agriculture. They burn, they grow right next to their settlement.

We Are What We Eat:...

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