A concept for keeping your summer fruit jag going after Labor Day: Head to Colombia
There may be no better place in the world to eat fruit than Colombia. Straddling the equator, the country’s growing season is year-round and its climate is ideal for the kind of colorful, honeyed, heavy-scented, alien-looking fruit that epitomizes the tropics. Bogotá sits at Colombia’s heart, and as such its markets double as Technicolor displays of the country’s biodiversity, showcasing the best of what’s grown in every region.
At the city’s main Mercado de Paloquemao, a maze of aisles gives way to a central atrium with teetering piles of oblong, and overflowing bins of wrinkly passionfruits and ochre-colored. It’s beautiful, but fairly run-of-the-mill to those Colombians for whom fruit is a dietary mainstay. This bounty becomes an array of kaleidoscopic salads, fresh juices and smoothies, sweet and savory dishes — and, of course, it’s sometimes eaten plain and gloriously un-messed with.
For visitors, though, it’s awesome, and has turned Paloquemao — well off the beaten tourist path — into a major attraction. Any given day now you’ll find groups of foreigners wandering the market with cameras, snapping pictures of fruit like produce paparazzi. Behold, then, what all the fuss is about: a wild and wondrous collection of some of Colombia’s national treasures.
Yes, mangosteen actually originated in Southeast Asia, but it’s become a Colombian mainstay since it was introduced here at the end of the 19th century. The superhard rind makes it difficult to reach the white, cottony flesh, but the effort is worth it. Tangy and juicy, with the ambrosial qualities of lychee and stone fruit combined, mangosteen has the added mystique of being nearly impossible to find in the U.S.
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