Cassava

Cassava is a root grown in Amerindian communities all across Guyana that is important to the Amerindian peoples diet and lifestyle. For many families cassava, in different forms, is incorporated into meals on a daily basis. Selling cassava products provides a source of income to Amerindian people of Mabaruma as well as delicious and nutritious food and the opportunity to work together.

Attached is a wonderful video uploaded to YouTube by Northwest Organics in 2009. The video was made in Region 1 where Mabaruma is found. I suggest watching the video to learn more about cassava and Amerindian culture.

I recommend trying soft cassava bread and pepper pot, must-eats for visitors to Guyana!

A meal of bush cow pepper pot, soft cassava bread, bananas and bush tea made and eaten in Hotoquai.

A young girl peeling cassava in Kamwatta.

A woman grating cassava in Kamwatta.