{"id":7680,"date":"2014-10-23T01:44:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T05:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=7680"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:39","slug":"pawpaw-fruit-southern-delicacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/pawpaw-fruit-southern-delicacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pawpaw Fruit: A Southern Delicacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have, on several occasions, heard of a mysterious fruit called a pawpaw. On each occasion it was referred to as a Southern delicacy: a fruit tree whose papaya-shaped fruit have the consistency of custard inside a tough, thin-skinned pod and a vanilla-banana flavor.<\/p>\n<p>One of my gardening mentors, Benny La Fleur, recently provided me with a pawpaw fruit to try. He grows them on his farm, along with many other wonderful things. As I had heard, it looks tropical: a greenish-yellow pod about 5 inches long with brown flecks. When cut open I found a soft fruit containing many large (an inch or more in length), brown, bean-like seeds. To me, the fruit tasted much like a banana cr\u00e8me pie, and was a welcome complement to our breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Curious, I decided to poke around and see what more I could learn about this strange, tropical, pawpaw fruit.<\/p>\n<div>Read more: <\/div>\n<div>\u00a0.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have, on several occasions, heard of a mysterious fruit called a pawpaw. On each occasion it was referred to as a Southern delicacy: a fruit tree whose papaya-shaped fruit have the consistency of custard inside a tough, thin-skinned pod and a vanilla-banana flavor. One of my gardening mentors, Benny La Fleur, recently provided me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/pawpaw-fruit-southern-delicacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Pawpaw Fruit: A Southern Delicacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share-the-love","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21099,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions\/21099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}