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Which fruit was the biggest illegal in the US?

By Rachel Laudan December 11, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Globalization Then and Now, Mexican Food 1 Comment

Yup.  The humble tejocote (teh-HO-cot-ay). In a great article in the LA Times, fruit expert David Karp explains why this was and how it is changing.

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Golden tejocote: Praise to a humble Day of the Dead fruit

By Rachel Laudan November 1, 2009 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Mexican Food, Taste 12 Comments

A clutch of tejocotes (te-ho-COT-es) with a plum tomato by their side to give you a sense of scale.  They look like minature golden apples, don’t they? Doll’s apples. So…

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