Anything you make from potatoes you can make from taro, including chips, bread, even pie fillings. In Hawaii taro is mostly turned into poi, the grayish pudding that Hawaii natives eat with their fingers from infancy. Residents who move here from other places tend not to be fond of poi but enjoy taro bread and taro chips, and most people who like Chinese dim sum are familiar with fried taro balls. Taro leaves, which are very large and taste a little like a sweeter form of spinach, are wrapped around fish and pork to make lau laus. Taro seldom grows unmolested.
Farmers have to look out for apple snails and a leaf blight locally known as pocket rot.
Kauai has 70 and Oahu 35. But most taro for processing comes from Kauai. HireHonolulu Fill an opening, find a job Internet Directory Local businesses on the web Legal Center Hundreds of business legal tools Office Products Special deals on equipment, supplies.