Brazil Passion: Passion fruit INSPIRES STRONG EMOTIONS
Many savor this juicy tropical fruit as a sensuous experience By MIRIAM PEREIRA The News-Press The deep green vines grow quickly, clasping on to whatever support is nearby. They stretch out and swirl in like an outstretched arm or a wild curly lock.The vines yield these intricately beautiful flowers that resemble a corona, the inspiration for its name. Nestled behind the leaves dangle these green spheres that are now beginning to turn from their lime green hue to wines, reds and...
Brazil Passion: IN SEASON: PASSION FRUIT
Passion fruit, or grandilla as it is often called, is native to Brazil. Passion fruit usually refers to a small, two- to-threeinch fruit with a purple, leathery skin. Inside, the fruit is yellow and contains many small, edible seeds. The pulp is used to flavor fruit salads and in sauces and tropical beverages. Peak time: May-September. Average price: $1.49 each. Tips for selection and storage: Choose passion fruit that is heavy for its size and has a purple-brown skin or a yellow-orange skin....
Brazil Passion: China Daily:
A Christmas musical feast
When concerts for Christmas and New Year celebration start, the Central Conservatory of Music, the top academy of music in China, joins in. But it likes to provide the local audience with something different from Strauss and "Radetsky March" during its fourth campus music festival, which will kick off tomorrow evening.Over 13 days, the conservatory's faculty and students, and their counterparts from Singapore and Germany, will present 27 concerts...
Brazil Passion: Mailbox
GREEN AND GROWING PASSION FLOWER: Missionaries in South America dubbed this plant passion flower, or Passiflora caerulea, because of many features seeming to relate to the Crucifixion.The vine's slightly fragrant flower is blue or white. Passion flowers bloom in summer after planting from seed in spring, or when grown from cuttings.A native of Brazil, passion flower vines grow best in full sun, with plenty of water and loose and sandy soil. Growth is best in the temperate...
Brazil Passion: EDITOR'S CHOICE
Ripe passion fruit makes flavorful pies, sorbet Not only is summer the season for mangoes and lychee, there's passion fruit as well. The distinctive aroma and flavor of passion fruit is like no other it is exotic in appearance and dramatic in its strong, tart flavor.A native of Brazil, passion fruit can be yellow or purple on the outside the latter have a slightly sweeter note to the gelatinous pulp surrounding black seeds.The tough, smooth shell of a mature fruit really...