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Romanescu

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Romanescu, or Romanesco, is closely related to cauliflower. If you enjoy cauliflower or broccoli you’ll like this unique fractal vegetable. It’s quite healthy beingloaded with antioxidants.
Buddha’s Hand

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The Buddha’s Hand, or fingered citron (no jokes please) is a popular and fragrant citrus fruit commonly consumed in Asia. If you canget through the thick peel you will find a tiny amount of seedless, rather dry flesh that is reminiscent of a lemon.
Durian

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The Durian defies explanation: but Weird Foodhas attempted to describe this foul, yet religiously revered fruit that is simultaneously adored…and banned from public spaces. “A fruit as big as a football, covered with tough spiky skin. The pulpis pale yellow, with shape and consistency of raw brains. Smell has been compared to rotting flesh, old gym socks, or sewage. Yet the taste has been called so exquisite that a European explorer of the1700′s claimed it was worth the journey to experience it; “the King of fruits.” Many believe it aphrodisiac and hold durian-eating parties. Most hotels, and so on, forbid it on the premises. InMalaysia, a friend of mine witnessed someone on a bus grab another person’s durian and throw it out the window, after another passenger threw up.”
Monstera Deliciosa

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Bring adelicious monster into your home today. This unusual coughphalliccough fruit is not well known in the U.S. but it’s popular elsewhere as a food and houseplant, and it is very tasty. Monstera deliciosa hasa rather unpleasant pungent odor that it emits while the kernels ripen and pop off; once they do, the sweet pineapple like flesh beneath can be consumed.
Paw Paw

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Did youknow there’s a North American banana? The paw-paw, or prairie banana, Hoosier banana or poor man’s banana, grows in the southeastern United States. Resembling bananas, but shorter and with a more...