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A day trip to Cape Tribulation found me visiting the Exotic Fruit Farm.
We were able to taste all of the 10 fruits in the bowl pictured above.
Can you name the fruits in the bowl?
Their names are pictured below.
Apple ID team member Joanie working on figuring out the variety of an unknown apple. (Using "Apples of New York")
This is the group that did the washing, slicing, and serving of the first session of the Dave Wilson Fruit Tasting Party at Cal Poly, August 12, 2006. Central Coast Chapter of CRFG was far too busy this month when we have the Festival of Fruit coming in less than a month!!!
Confusingly, there's another accession that's called 'Xin Dai Jiu Bao' so be careful if you order germplasm. An accession from China.
After touring the Spice Plantation, we tasted a wide variety of interesting tropical fruits.
Spice Plantation, Zanzibar, Tanzania
At Hellens House, Much Marcle, Herefordshire.
SMC Pentax-A 50mm f1.7 lens. Processed RawTherapee 3. View On Black
I believe this one came from Central Asian apricot accessions. This one was more to my taste than the other merely sweet apricots.
No surprise, the Morus nigra was my favorite but this was nowhere near as good as the Morus nigra I was forced to sell when I lost my house. :(
The public tasting started at 1 p.m. this group of nearly 40 people were ready!!! They worked the "first shift" and then another group of CRFG Volunteers came to finish the tasting and clean up the mess!! A million thanks to all who helped to make this super special event so successful!!! Our hats of to Ed Laivo, Tom Spellman and Mike Tomlinson for a fantastic day!!!!
There weren't many of them and I was surprised to see them go fast. Usually people these days seem to prefer low acid fruit. But people went as nuts over these as I did.
If I recall correctly, this was a variety found in the yard of a Mrs. Anderson in Iowa in the 19th c.
I don't recommend eating Aronias. One Green World says they are great for a tasty snack. "Tasty" it turns out, is a very subjective word. The only way you would enjoy snacking on these little bird-berries is if you like all the life sucked out of your tongue. Your tongue will remain dry until you help it out with some other soothing beverage. Something that will return the saliva from its hiding place.
The unfortunate thing about these fruit tastings is that they're well attended and by people with wildly differing levels of manners. I got these photos before people arrived and before it was okay to taste. Once the tasting starts, you're jostled and jostling and I find myself a little too stressed out to really concentrate on the nuances of what I'm tasting. So unless something's a knockout, I have trouble remembering much other than sweet, insipid, or great.
After touring the Spice Plantation, we tasted a wide variety of interesting tropical fruits.
Spice Plantation, Zanzibar, Tanzania
The unfortunate thing about these fruit tastings is that they're well attended and by people with wildly differing levels of manners. I got these photos before people arrived and before it was okay to taste. Once the tasting starts, you're jostled and jostling and I find myself a little too stressed out to really concentrate on the nuances of what I'm tasting. So unless something's a knockout, I have trouble remembering much other than sweet, insipid, or great.
A lesson of why tastings need more objective measurements. The Prunus curator said "This is the best peach in this tasting". Someone asked her "What do you mean by 'best'?" "It's just the best".
Well, it wasn't anywhere near the best in my opinion. The curator clearly likes very sweet peaches with a minimum of acid. My ideal of a peach is sweet with enough acid to set that off. The questioner may have had yet another ideal of what 'best' would consist of. There need to be better standards for describing fruit taste than a mere Brix measurement.