It is not only as poi that the tubers are eaten; they are sliced and fried like potatoes, or baked whole upon hot stones.

It is in this last form that I have eaten them in my expeditions.

A tuber which I carried in my pocket has often been my only provision for the day.
In Algeria, a kind of kalo is cultivated under the name of _chou caraibe_, whose tubers are larger, but less feculent.

[In China, smaller and much less delicately flavored tubers are common in the markets.] (3.) The Hawaiians have always been epicures in the article of dog-meat.
The kind they raise for their feasts is small and easily fatted, like pig.
They are fed only on vegetables, especially kalo, to make their flesh more tender and delicately flavored.

Sometimes these dogs are suckled by the women at the expense of their infants.