Aloha Garden of Peace

Below are pics of jackfruit and how we “peeled” and ate the fruit. White “strings” held each section of fruit and a seed was inside each section. So after peeling the strings back/cutting them off, Mark would separate the seed from the fruit and cut that piece of fruit in half- one bite for each of us. It took us two mornings (yesterday and today) to finish the whole thing. Today, while mark worked at peeling and preparing, I read aloud from a book about native Hawaiian plants and specifically about Polynesian crops.

The taste, we think, is similar to artificial banana flavor in some candies, such as “Now and Later”, but it has been MANY YEARS since either of us had any such candies.