{"id":233,"date":"2008-10-02T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T21:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-10-02T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T21:42:54","slug":"bringing-the-tropics-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Bringing the tropics home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got to try something new today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/paw1-20081002.jpg\" alt=\"pawpaw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a rotten potato, or a misshapen apple. This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/plants.usda.gov\/java\/profile?symbol=ASTR\">pawpaw<\/a>. Pawpaw trees are native to eastern North America, and are sometimes called &#8220;Kentucky bananas&#8221; (or Indiana, or Michigan, or various other geographic modifiers) for their vaguely bananoid shape. A co-worker has a tree, and when he learned that I&#8217;d never had the opportunity to try one, he saved me a fruit. (Same source as the fig &#8211; he likes to grow things.)<\/p>\n<p>This particular specimen did look more like a green potato than any kind of banana, slightly soft to the touch, with a definite fruity aroma. It smelled a bit like a ripe mango.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/paw2-20081002.jpg\" alt=\"pawpaw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inside, a gooey yellow, with enormous seeds. Banana-like fruit shouldn&#8217;t have seeds &#8211; isn&#8217;t that a law of nature or something? The pulp smells and tastes like a cross between a mango and a banana, remarkably tropical for something native to Pennsylvania (all its close relations are tropical). The consistency is soft, moister than a banana and smoother than a mango. It would mash admirably for use in baking, if I&#8217;d had more than just the one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to try something new today. This isn&#8217;t a rotten potato, or a misshapen apple. This is a pawpaw. Pawpaw trees are native to eastern North America, and are sometimes called &#8220;Kentucky bananas&#8221; (or Indiana, or Michigan, or various other geographic modifiers) for their vaguely bananoid shape. A co-worker has a tree, and when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-eat-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}