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My canistel from last week’s share were finally ripe, so on Sunday I made canistel custard using a recipe from the Rare Fruit Council. I learned that eating unripe canistel fruit can give you a stomachache when I re-read an old Redland Organics newsletter,.  Apparently, they exude a milky white latex when they are unripe.  [...]

Luscious photographs of plums, peaches, berries and tomatoes emblazon the covers of the national food magazines. Food writers wax poetic about the summer harvest. Of course, they are not talking about anything we find in Florida. What about local fruits and vegetables? The pickings seem slim when it comes to local produce in South Florida’s [...]