Hello Amadeus!

Try a Thai grocery store. Durians are about the size of a football and
spiky, like a pre-historic food.

They are in season now and I am told, because of refrigeration, they will
be available through December.

They can also be bought frozen. They have compartments with large seeds and
a custard like pulp.

Delicious and nourishing!  In Chicago, the whole fruit sells for $1.95 a
lb, and the average fruit weighs about 5lbs.

I am told it is a favourite fruit of the Orang Utans. Harvesting it is
dangerous because it grows over a hundred feet high and can fall on the
heads of the gatherers.

Mahesh Shah

-----Original Message-----
From:   Amadeus Schmidt [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, September 04, 1998 6:48 AM
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Subject:        [P-F] champedak and durian was: Re: All-meat diet

On Thu, 3 Sep 1998 18:30:40 -1000, Nieft / Secola <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>... champedak and durian. These are indeed stunning fruits. The durian is
>eaten by tigers! There is something special about both durians and
>champedaks. Having eaten a couple thousand combined (while living in
>Thailand for four years) I can (as a sample of one) attest that they are
>indeed absolutely NOTHING like any of the produce available to the average
>Neanderthinners, home garden or not.

Hey that sounds interesting!
champedak and durian..
I could not find it in any dictionary.
Could you tell something more about it?
Could it be available in asian shops (maybe in some canned form)?

Well, I'm always in seach of some new tasty and natural
(not much gene manipulated) foodstuff.

Recently looked at waterchestnut, which was found in mesolithic
settlements in south germany.
They said, was very tasty and a similar thing could be found in
canned form from asia shops.

regards

Amadeus