Hi Mate,

Thought you may be interested in these the quality is quite bad as they have been reduced from 400MB:

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Worlds first French fry terrine (served hot)

Melting Courgette flower filled with Anchovy

Cheers Mate, Adam

Received another postcard from Adam, thought to show you what’s cooking from the other end of the world, Spain!

Another fruit of interest I found in the market is the Sweet Granadilla, grown in Colombia. Same family as the Passion fruit but much larger and sweeter. The seeds are dark in color, large compared to the Passion fruit and perhaps not as colorful .

Nonku, from South Africa sent me this note to Passion fruit:

As a matter of fact in SA we don’t call them passion fruit. The fruit is called Granadilla. Yes it is true you find Granadilla only in yoghurts and is also used in Fruit Cocktail juices.I actually saw a Granadilla fruit for the first time in Dubai.

Sweet granadilla (or sometimes called or spelled Grenadia) is one common name for Passiflora ligularis. The epithet ligularis comes from the plant’s ligulate corollae. It is native to the Andes Mountains between Bolivia and Venezuela. It grows as far south as northern Argentina and as far north as Mexico. Outside of its native range it grows in the tropical mountains of Africa and Australia (where they are known as passion fruit). It likes climates ranging from 15° to 18° C and between 600 and 1000 mm of annual rain. It lives at altitudes ranging from 1700 to 2600 meters above sea level.

They have abundant, simple leaves and greenish-white flowers.

The fruit is orange to yellow colored with small light markings. It has a round shape with a tip ending in the stem. The fruit is between 6.5 and 8 cm long and between 5.1 and 7 cm in diameter. The outer shell is hard and slippery, and has soft padding on the interior to protect the seeds. The seeds, which are hard and black, are surrounded by a gelatinous sphere of transparent pulp. The pulp is the edible part of the fruit and has a strong acidic taste. It is very aromatic and contains vitamins A, C, and K, phosphorus, iron, and calcium.

The main producers are Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, South Africa, and Kenya. The main importers are the United States, Canada, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and Spain.