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<\/a>\nOne of the things I love most about doing ethnojunkets<\/a> is introducing my food tour guests to international treats they\u2019ve never tasted but soon won\u2019t be able to live without. (That\u2019s what puts the junkie in ethnojunkie \ud83d\ude09.) So I was unusually pleased during a recent jaunt through Brooklyn\u2019s Little Odessa when a participant whose birthplace was Colombia gleefully recognized a favorite fruit in the gourmet produce section of Gourmanoff, an upscale Russian market, that she hadn\u2019t seen locally elsewhere \u2013 feijoa. She happily instructed the others in her technique for selecting a ripe one as well as consuming it \u2013 which made my job easier!<\/p>\n
Also known as \u201cpineapple guava\u201d, \u201cBrazilian guava\u201d, \u201cfig guava\u201d and \u201cguavasteen\u201d, the fruit\u2019s flesh is soft in the center growing firmer and a bit grainier (a little like a pear) approaching its thin green skin. In the same family (Myrtaceae) as the guava but not the same genus, the aroma is almost perfumy. Its flavor is full-bodied and tropical, intensifying nearer the skin which itself can be eaten but has a decidedly different character, floral in nature.<\/p>\n
So what was the connection between my exultant Colombian guest and this posh Russian market? Turns out that the feijoa is native to two regions of the world: Colombia (and other parts of South America) and Russia (and former Soviet Union countries)!<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfb6 Reunited, and it feels so good! \ud83c\udfb6
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