Richard Wright wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:34:37 -0500, "mel turner"
wrote:

"Richard Wright" wrote in
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[...]
They are said to be prepared according to the methods used in
South
America to prepare 'couac'.

Does anybody have any idea what 'couac' is, remembering the
article is
in French?

I wonder whether the reference is to an unrelated plant Manihot
utilissima (manioc, yuca. cassava).

You wondered correctly, it seems.

[...]

Thanks, Mel. I should have followed up my own hunch on Google! I
since
found couac in a large French dictionary, and it too makes the
cassava
connection.

OT, it's also a French word for "wrong note"!

Mike.