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Cool as a cucumber

Cool as a cucumber

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Cucumber is a fruit (botanically speaking) that’s usually overlooked as an ingredient in preparation. Of course, it’s widely used in everyday Greek, Chinese, Japanese, French salads, but do we really pay …

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Frais comme un concombre

Frais comme un concombre

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Le concombre est un fruit (botaniquement parlant) qui est généralement négligé comme ingrédient dans les préparations. Bien sûr, il est largement utilisé dans les salades grecques, chinoises, japonaises et françaises de …

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Jackfruit – jack of all trades

Jackfruit – jack of all trades

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If you never tried this fruit before, you probably should consider trying to locate it at your nearest Asian (or regular) market and get one. New sensations are assured. Ok, we …

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Pineapple scraps

Pineapple scraps

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First question: where do you think pineapples grow? ‘On a palm tree’, many would answer, and this is going to be a false answer. It is a herbaceous perennial plant that looks more like grass with wide waxy leaves, with pineapple starting to form from dozens of individual flowers with up to 200 fruits that eventually become one multiple fruit.

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Cherry the love

Cherry the love

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Cherry is downright the greatest part of the summer. It’s plump, it’s juicy, it’s sweet – if you buy sweet cherry, of course, because there is a sour cherry out there that just happens to bear the same name, but, from a culinary standpoint, it’s totally not a memory you would like to cherish for a long time (pun intended).

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Not just an out-of-hand thing

Not just an out-of-hand thing

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Many palms are cultivated for their fruits. The phoenix type is no exception. Its genus contains more than 12 different species of wild date palms that are used in commercial production.

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