Q: When I eat at Hispanic restaurants, they serve yuca root. I this the same as ornamental yucca? Andy Segal, Atlanta A: They are not the same, although I sometimes see "yucca" on restaurant menus.
Stephen Lemons is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer. Southern California chefs are experimenting with the versatility of that sticky, fibrous root vegetable known as yuca, cassava or manioc. Had I ...