This post has been updated. There are plenty of situations that require the thickening power of a pantry starch: your pie filling, soup, sauce, gravy. Cornstarch, tapioca starch (also known as tapioca ...

This Vietnamese dessert is made from the hardy root vegetable cassava. Tapioca is a starch extracted from the tuber and is available from Asian food shops. serves To make sweetened coconut cream, ...

Tapioca, a traditional snack in the North and Northeast of Brazil, is expanding its domains. The starch extracted from manioc - which, when heated, becomes hard beijus and other more flexible shapes - ...