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19-3: Exotic Fruits I

Jamie Martin Group 19: Basic Ingredients, Section 4: Cooking School March 4, 2024March 4, 2024carambola, cooking school, dried fruit, fruit, fruit juice, fruit salad, fruit sauce, garnish, ingredients, kiwis, mango juice, mangoes, mixed fruit, star fruit, vegan, vegetarian

In today’s edition of “The Way Things Used To Be”, we’re going to see yet another example of how globalization over the last 30ish years has changed everything, including the availability of produce. 19-3: Exotic Fruits I (and its soon-to-be-sequel, 19-4: Exotic Fruits II) highlights three fruits that seemed “exotic” back in the late 1980s-early 1990s: kiwi, carambola (“star fruit”), and mango.

Out of the three, I’d maybe consider carambola as the most “exotic”–kiwi and mango were already pretty popular by the 1990s (the heyday of brands like Nantucket Nectars and Snapple). Plus, which of the three do you think you’d have the hardest time locating in a grocery store these days? I mean, you’d find all of them, but you might have to go to like, two stores? When this was written, it’d have been much harder (especially based on where you lived).

7-17: Piquant Pork Chops

Jamie Martin Group 07: Pork, Section 2: Main Courses May 20, 2018October 28, 2020apples, barbecue sauce, broiled, brushed, butter, cast-iron, chili sauce, chopped, cloves, creamy, currants, curry paste, dinner, easy, fairly inexpensive, fruit, fruit sauce, golden raisins, grated, Greek yogurt, grill pan, grilled, half-and-half, hot sauce, julienned, milk, Oriental, pan-fried, parsley, peeled, piquant, pork, pork chops, pork loin, pork shoulder, raisins, salt, sautéed, scored, slit, spicy, sriracha, steak sauce, untested, whipping cream, yellow onions, yogurt

Oh boy, yet another pork chops recipe. 7-11: Piquant Pork Chops tries to stand out by boasting a fruity, spicy take on the standard pork-chop-with-pan-sauce entries that have already been covered at length throughout this project.

I think it’s a bit hyperbolic to insist that just adding a “new” spice or sauce to pork chops radically changes it as a dish, but I suppose that for some people it can be a big deal to experience new things outside of the regular old tried-and-true.