Writing — Food & Photography
Check Out This Weirdo Fruit
What is a Rambutan and what the heck do you do with it?
Since coming to Trinidad & Tobago I’ve encountered a wealth of strange fruits and vegetables I never saw before in my life. While I’m not too adventurous with trying out different kinds of weird meat (rats, snakes, beaver, no thank you) I will try almost any kind of weird fruit or vegetable.
The other day my husband and I drove into Port-of-Spain to visit his brother and his brother’s wife, who have a lot of expertise when it comes to produce here in TT. It’s their business to know. Literally, that’s their business. They have a small but hugely popular produce market they’ve run for years.
As we stood around contemplating more commonplace things like mangos and avocados, my sister-in-law held up this weird looking thing I’d only seen before in passing.
“Give it a try,” she offered.
Have to say, it’s strangeness gave me pause, but my brother-in-law quickly piped in “it tastes sweet.”
