As Frutas

02.06.2012 21:08

You can’t be in Latin America for long without marveling at its unbelievable array of fruit. I’ve been having sucos every morning made with the familiar—abacaxi (pineapple), mamão (papaya), manga (mango), and some couve (kale) for good measure—as well as the more exotic maracujá (passion fruit), goiaba (guava), açai (yes, fresh!), and graviola (guanabana in Spanish). Not to mention my daily ration of freshly poured coconut water on the street for a mere real, or 50 cents USD. My Senhora showed me about a dozen fruits I’ve never seen or heard of including the crazy jabuticaba, a berry-cherry looking fruit that grows on the tree trunk, jambo, and siriguela (click the links for pictures!). Today I went to the Feira de São Jaoquim, a huge market with all kinds of fruit, vegetables, herbs, and plants that I didn’t recognize, not to mention carcasses of who-knows-what and all their parts. The photo below includes a melão amarelo (yellow melon), maracujá, a HUGE abacate (who said everything’s bigger in Texas!?), a white batata dulce (sweet potato), a banana, a green laranga (orange), and the opened goiaba. Deliciosa!