51.   The banana leaf lends its own special flavour to the fish - a combination I find most agreeable.

52.   The casket was placed in a small thatched hut of banana palm leaves beside the altar.

53.   The appetiser, for example, is a Thai-flavoured vegetable seafood soup, served with smoked salmon on a banana leaf and scallops topped with caviar.

54.   The elephants have also been put back on their original diet of banana leaves and palm midribs.

55.   The food is steamed for several hours, and the banana leaves and warm earth give the food a special flavor, Vasquez said.

56.   The makcik who sells nasi lemak will vouch that it is not nasi lemak when not served on banana leaf and neither is pulut udang or pulut inti.

57.   The new families had to build homes from the ground up, first with little more than banana leaves, later with rough planks of wood covered with plastic.

58.   They live in shacks of banana leaves and black plastic sheeting that absorbs heat to the boiling point, and battle daily to fend off flies.

59.   Traditional Yogyakarta snacks are served warm on banana leaves with sweetened black tea.

60.   Thousands of people crowd around relief workers distributing rice and brown sugar wrapped in banana leaves and newspapers.