Fruits in Colombia
Lun, 05/24/2010 - 16:23
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One of the cool things about Colombia was drinking fresh fruit shakes to beat the heat. Before my first trip, I had never tried lulo, curuba, zapote, mamoncillo, granadilla, mamey, feijoa or uchuva. In Canada, even guanabana is exotic... |
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I was wondering how popular these fruits are in Colombian ex-pat communities, e.g. in the States. Are they readily available, |
or not so much? Any reason I couldn't set up a fruit shake biz in Canada, or do these things not travel so well? |
Fruit under the microscope
Lun, 05/24/2010 - 16:09
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Sweet mouth-watering fruits provide us with a healthy source of food, but that is not the reason why plants produce them. Fruit, and the seeds they protect, are crucial to species' survival.
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A new book - written by two experts from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - reveals the ingenious and often devious strategies which plants have developed to help ensure their continued existence.
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