Sugar derived from the sap of certain palm trees.

A staple in New England cuisine, this is a griddlecake made with corn meal mixed with salt and hot water or milk. In the south, it's called hoecake.

These huge leaves (one foot or more in diameter) are used to wrap sweet and savory mixtures of sticky rice, meats, fruits, nuts, etc. for steaming.

One of the two types of almonds (the other being sweet almonds), raw bitter almonds contain cyanide which is poisonous. Bitter almonds are commercially processed (where it's toxicity is destroyed) and used to flavor liqueurs and syrups.