At this, rate roti canai could easily become a local staple.

The price of a 220-pound bag of millet, the local staple, has doubled, to $23.

In Vientiane, the capital of Laos, the preparation is very often folded in either cooked cabbage leaves (kaalampii' - a local staple) or lettuce.

The most common crops were maize (corn on the cob), the local staple, and large, bushy plants that looked like spinach.

Philadelphia is the home of many culinary institutions, both gourmet and local staples.

Another local staple is maize and it too comes is a rainbow of colours.

Both babas and limoncello have been local staples for decades, but putting them together is a fairly recent phenomenon.

In the course of four weeks, Verdi's 23rd opera, just two years old, had become a local staple.

Long a local staple, they had languished in recent years.

Had the passage of candy stores and soda fountains driven a distinctive nectar, a once cherished local staple, to the verge of extinction?