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Zapotes Are in Season Now in Guatemala

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Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Zapote for Sapote (from Nahuatl tzapotl) or Sapodilla in English [Pouteria sapota]. The zapote flavor is a mix of sweet potato, pumpkin, honey, peach, apricot, cantaloupe, cherry, and almond. The zapote fruit shown here is also known as sapote mamey in other parts of Latin America … Read more

Guatemalan Fruit: Zapote

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Many were the contributions of Meso-America to the world in terms of brand-new dietary crops; so long is the list that one can not imagine a world without such staples like maize (corn), tomatoes, avocados, potatoes, squash, pumpkins, tomatillo, beans, red hot chili peppers [not the rock band ;-)], et-cetera. Some crops from Meso-America, however, … Read more