Food prep

Laplap is the national dish of Vanuatu prepared by grating cassava, yam, banana or taro into a dough or pudding mixed with coconut milk. The dough is then spread out on banana leaves; pieces of meat, fish or turtle are poked into the laplap or island cabbage leaves may be layered on top of it. The laplap is then wrapped in the banana leaves and put into the earth oven (a hole filled with hot stones), covered with leaves or old copra sacks, and cooked slowly. Everyone participates in laplap making but men do this more often for big feasts while it is a daily or weekly chore for women. Seaside is a migrant community in Port Vila.

• Summer 1981

• Larcom, Joan

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

• Women at Work

• Malekula (Vanuatu)
• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands

• Cassava
• Cookery
• Lap lap
• Taro
• Women
• Yams

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• Skinner-Jones, Ann

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