It’s approaching 5 a.m., and thoughts racing through my sleepless head are not suitable for a newspaper section whose favorite four-letter word is food. I’m on my third attempt at making bubble tea, ...

Note: From Danielle Keene, Wilshire Restaurant. Large tapioca pearls are available at select Whole Foods (Islands brand) and well-stocked supermarkets. This recipe calls for soaking the tapioca for 24 ...

Tapioca is a starch extracted from the root of the cassava plant, a native of South America. It is mostly used as a thickening agent in foods. White pearls are the best-known form of tapioca, produced ...

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This recipe is designed to strip away many of the gimmicks — the flavored syrups, the fruit powders, the squares of gelatin — that have compromised the simple elegance of bubble teas, which were first ...

Tapioca pearls taste like nothing by themselves, but when combined with cumin seeds, green chilies, grated coconut, roasted peanuts and lime juice in sabudana khichdi, they take on a new life for ...

Tapioca is starch obtained from the root of cassava, a plant that mostly grows underground (like a potato). In many parts of the world, it's a food staple. Cassava is a native vegetable of South ...