http://tropicalcuisine.com/2010/03/09/produce-glossary/ COOKING IN CLARE'S KITCHEN Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:29:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://tropicalcuisine.com/2010/03/09/produce-glossary/comment-page-1/#comment-45 clare Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:01:09 +0000 http://tropicalcuisine.com/?p=447#comment-45 The best stall for pomelo is the Vietnamese stall at the rear on the Grafton street side - at the back of the stall he does sugarcane juice and green drinking coconuts, and along the central table is where the pomelo's are. If there are none one week they'll generally be there again the next week (it's always worth asking them when they'll have them in next). He also stocks breadfruit sometimes, as do the older Malay couple who have a Saturday stall that backs onto Billy's coffee. Not the time for breadfruit at present, back again in the wet season. We dearly need a food gardening book for the tropics - Leonie Norrington's Tropical Food Gardens is a great start, but more is needed. Another scheme for the future in the back of my head somewhere is to get a range of contributors together from across tropical australia to give guidance on growing various foods in our many and varying microclimates. I didn't have enough room in this cookbook to cover cooking related information on all the produce I intend to cover - it will take at least 4 volumes to get some decent coverage of what grows in our part of the world. So, I intend this to be the first of four volumes. Maybe some of our fabulously experienced gardeners and horticulturalists can be encouraged to write the food gardening book that we all need... The best stall for pomelo is the Vietnamese stall at the rear on the Grafton street side – at the back of the stall he does sugarcane juice and green drinking coconuts, and along the central table is where the pomelo’s are. If there are none one week they’ll generally be there again the next week (it’s always worth asking them when they’ll have them in next). He also stocks breadfruit sometimes, as do the older Malay couple who have a Saturday stall that backs onto Billy’s coffee. Not the time for breadfruit at present, back again in the wet season.
We dearly need a food gardening book for the tropics – Leonie Norrington’s Tropical Food Gardens is a great start, but more is needed. Another scheme for the future in the back of my head somewhere is to get a range of contributors together from across tropical australia to give guidance on growing various foods in our many and varying microclimates.
I didn’t have enough room in this cookbook to cover cooking related information on all the produce I intend to cover – it will take at least 4 volumes to get some decent coverage of what grows in our part of the world. So, I intend this to be the first of four volumes. Maybe some of our fabulously experienced gardeners and horticulturalists can be encouraged to write the food gardening book that we all need…

]]> http://tropicalcuisine.com/2010/03/09/produce-glossary/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Abe Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:52:41 +0000 http://tropicalcuisine.com/?p=447#comment-44 Rusty's doesn't seem to have as many "exotic" fruits as I'd expect, For instance I've been looking for some breadfruit and pomello but I can't find any. Is the book going to include information on how to grow any of the ingredients? Rusty’s doesn’t seem to have as many “exotic” fruits as I’d expect, For instance I’ve been looking for some breadfruit and pomello but I can’t find any. Is the book going to include information on how to grow any of the ingredients?

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