The outer bark is what we see. It protects the tree from animals and the weather. It is constantly renewed from the inner bark (phloem), which carries food from the leaves to the ...

Rather, it should be a mixture of textures, with some of the dark, outer bark that forms from long hours in the smoker alongside the silky inner meat from the roast. Luckily, for those of us who ...

He separates the bark from the trunk and peels the white inner-bark away from the brown outer-bark. The inner-bark (known at this raw stage as tapa) is soaked and softened in water. When it's ...