Alan Davidson

Pacaya

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Oxford Companion to Food
Oxford Companion to Food

By Alan Davidson

Published 2014

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pacaya the name used in C. America and Mexico for plants of the genus Chamaedorea, especially C. costaricana and C. tepejilote, which supply inflorescences which can be boiled as a vegetable, made into fritters, or used in salads.

© the Estate of Alan Davidson 1999, 2006, 2014 © in the Editor’s contribution to the second and third editions, Oxford University Press 2006, 2014.