When I was a kid my mom grew a whole bunch of them... This year, I have some starting in a big pot... My mom sometimes substituted the peeled roots in a beef soup with cabage, instead using of potatoes. I've also had the cut leaves and stems cooked in soy sauce with garlic. I vaguely remember a dish using the leaves with coconut milk but can't remember the details... It may have had carrots too..

the leaves can be stewed with garlic and onions and coconut milk with salt fish, but it requires drying out in the sun first so the toxins/irritants are removed.

The root can be cut in half, keeping the stem intact. This part can once again be put back in the soil to grow.

The root can be boiled and added to a sweet porrage type dish made of yams, rice flour balls, tapioca, coconut milk , plantain, jackfruit and sugar

I don't particularly like the taro in other dishes, but those taro desserts (with the thick liquid and maybe some tapioca) are really tasty and taro bread is too awesome. I never would have thought taro bread would be that tasty.

Haha when my mom first tried to substitute taro for potatoes, I refused to eat it because, in my mind, I thought she was trying to pull a fast one... Now I truly enjoy eating it in that beef soup...

I researched these a bit last night. They grow wild under a bridge off of the highway about an hour south of Macon, Georgia. I was confused as to why they lived fine there, but mine needed special care - usually died in the winter and were NOT in creek water.
What I found out is the Eddoe, the Indian strain, is/may be a different species - smaller root and hardier. Maybe the ones in the creek are Eddoe.
I would LOVE to try this strain if anyone has it to trade.
One day, I'll look for that creek full of elephant ears again !!

I think I do have Eddoe in my garden. Bought it at an Indian grocery store and yes its quite nutty and yummy! You might want to check a local Indian grocery store to see if they have that strain. Luckily, most taro is not treated with growth inhibitors, so you might have a good chance to grow it from the tuber