12 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +2 "caña"
Explanation:
Spanish Abroad - Traditional food drink and recipies of Argentina - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... Traditional Food and drink of ArgentinaLunch and dinner often consists of pizza,
... 'Ginebra bols' and 'caña' are both national specialties. ...
www.spanishabroad.com/argentina/countryguide/food.htm - 34k - En caché - Páginas similares
A Guide to Argentina Foods for Visitors - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... Ice cream is of excellent quality in Argentina and Dulce De Leche is one of the
... Don't overlook 'ginebra bols' and 'caña' both of which are national ...
www.lafalda.com/food.htm - 7k - En caché - Páginas similares
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Note added at 14 mins (2005-04-04 02:28:14 GMT)
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Tambien es típica de otras partes de Latinoamérica.
Big Five - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... and is separated from Argentina in the west and south by the River Uruguay.
... Local spirits are caña, grappa and locally distilled whisky and gin. ...
www.bigfive.com/bug.cfm?ctry=Uruguay - 15k - 1 Abr 2005 - En caché - Páginas similares
History Lesson Paraguay - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... Paraguay is a landlocked country surrounded by Brazil, Argentina and Bolivia
... notable only for an excellent church, a strong local drink called caña, ...
www.gypsylounge.com/x/sam/history_lesson/par.htm - 27k - En caché - Páginas similares
Cuisine of South America - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... Mate is a national drink, taken either cold as tereré , or hot. Mosto is a
sugar-cane juice, the alcoholic version is caña . ...
gosouthamerica.about.com/library/weekly/aa101900e.htm - 39k - En caché - Páginas similares
| Coral Getino
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:  Spanish
PRO pts in category: 40
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| | Grading comment | YES!!!! Finally I can do it!!!! Thanks, Cecilia! And Coral (of course). |
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15 mins confidence: 
26 mins confidence: sugarcane
Explanation:
A tall tropical southeast Asian grass (Saccharum officinarum) having thick, solid, tough stems that are a chief commercial source of sugar.
sugarcane, tall tropical perennials (species of Saccharum, chiefly S. officinarum) of the family Gramineae (grass family), probably cultivated in their native Asia from prehistoric times. Sugarcane somewhat resembles corn and sorghum, with a large terminal panicle and a noded stalk. In biblical times, one of the known sweetening agents in the world was honey. It was not until the Middle Ages that the “Indian honey-bearing reed” was introduced to the Middle East and became accessible to Europe, where sugar was sold from druggists' shelves as a costly medicinal or luxury. Later, sugarcane plants were introduced by Spanish and Portuguese explorers of the 15th and 16th cent. throughout the Old and New World tropics, and the large cane industry rapidly took shape. Today, sugarcane and the sugar beet (see beet), a temperate plant developed as a commercial sugar source c.1800, are the only two major economic sources of sugar. Cuba and India together produce a large percentage of the world's tropical sugar, cane sugar. Cane is harvested by cutting down the plant stalks, which are then pressed several times to extract the juice. The juice is concentrated by evaporation into dark, sticky sugar, often sold locally. Refined sugar, less nourishing as food, is obtained by precipitating out the non-sugar components. Almost pure sucrose, it is the main commercial product. Byproducts obtained from sugarcane include molasses, rum, alcohol, fuel, livestock feed, and from the stalk residue, paper and wallboard. Sugarcane is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Liliopsida, order Cyperales, family Poaceae (Gramineae).
Puede escribirse junto o separado "sugar cane" or "sugarcane"
Reference: http://www.answers.com/sugar%20cane
| Gabriela Rodriguez
Argentina
Local time: 04:58
Works in field
Native speaker of:  Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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