Ackee is both a tree and the fruit of that tree. The tree is evergreen in the tropics, growing 30 to 40 feet tall (9 to 12 metres.) It is grown throughout the Caribbean as an ornamental tree; only in Jamaica is it grown commercially as a food item. The fruit is red on the…
Bread Fruit is a member of the mulberry family that grows in tropical areas. It doesn’t do well where the temperature will go below 60 F (16 C.) The tree can grow to 85 feet tall (25 metres) with dark-green leaves. In the southern Pacific, the tree will produce fruit more or less year round….
Clément Créole Shrubb is a yellow-coloured, orange-flavoured liqueur made from a blend of young and aged rums, along with cane sugar syrup, that has orange peel steeped in it. It is aged in oak barrels. Alcohol content is 40% abv. Cooking Tips Can be drunk straight up, on the rocks or mixed with carbonated mineral…
Guava Fruit © Denzil Green The Guava tree is an evergreen tree (in the tropics, at least.) The tree starts to bear fruit within two years of planting. After 5 years, a tree can bear five to six hundred fruits a year. The tree will live up to 40 years, but it is not very…
Guava Paste is a very thick, purée of Guava Fruit. It is stiff and dense, almost like a fruit leather, but still soft and easily cut with a knife. It is sold in small and large blocks, or canned, but not in jars. The small blocks are about six inches long, an inch wide, and…
White Guinea Yams are long tubers, sometimes weighing up to 4 pounds (2 kg.) The yams take 8 months to be ready to harvest. They have brown skin that is like bark, sometimes covered in fine hairy fibres. Inside, the flesh is white and mealy, and moister and softer than it is in Yellow Yams….
