One of my amazing classmates in medical school is the founder of a company called Global Village Fruit [1] where she works on making jackfruit available internationally. In the Boston area her company has supplied numerous local restaurants with the fruit (Veggie Galaxy makes a delicious jackfruit sandwich out of her company's product), and she's done a wonderful job spreading awareness of the jackfruit. I urge you to check out the company and learn how you might be able to incorporate the jackfruit into your own recipes!
Jackfruit could save millions from starvation
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Re: Jackfruit could save millions from starvation
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair enough. I realise that the Indian states are very different, much like different EU countries. I don't think the EU has quite as many languages (and dialects) as that, though there are more than many people think. Have a quick look at the list here, for example: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/saoghal/mion-chanain/en/ Many that previously existed have died out, of course. And as TV and radio became more prevelant, it d…
It may at one point had so, but multiple nations had (sometimes recent) historical campaigns to define a national language and stamp out the rest.
Like the Breton language in France.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unripe jackfruit is totally like pork in texture - pulled or cubed. Only, as is typical of plant-based food, it is not as juicy. You can use it in all the ways that you can use pork - stews, jambalayas, with rice - except in a sandwich. I'm pretty sure jackfruit is too dry for sandwiches. Though, if it lends itself to pickling like cabbage, that may be a good way to incorporate it into a sandwich.
Here in Phoenix there's a place that does pulled pork sandwhiches with jackfruit, so clearly they are making it work somehow :)
Yeah the Randy Radish here in VA pulls it off. I'm not vegetarian/vegan but I thought it was pretty good.
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#84I eat this all the time when I am in the Philippines. It has one unique property that was not mentioned in the article. Just as asparagus makes urine smell like asparagus, jackfruit makes feces smell sweet like the fruit.
SOLD!
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#85I live in Cambodia and have always been put off jackfruit by its smell. With plenty of other fruit I love, I've just never bothered to try it...till today. I shall give it a go this evening. I doubt the pork taste very much, as a vegetarian I hear that a lot, "it taste just like bacon", no, no it doesn't.
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#86I live in Florida, and sometimes as I drive throughout the state and see the hundreds and hundreds (though it may be thousands) of oranges alongside the road I wonder just how many go to waste that could be sent to places in need, and then I wonder if there's other places that do the same... Most of the United States is uninhabited, so I always wonder how much vegetation is just sitting there that could feed others.…
I dunno how it is in the states, but in some nations giving leftovers etc away is a problematic process because of food safety regulations.
In the states this is a common misconception, but in fact there is a law protecting those who give away food. John Oliver had a good segment on this.
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I guess it depends on how you define uninhabited - if I've got a 50,000 acre ranch with a 2800 sq ft house on it, most people are going to call the bulk of that land uninhabited. Even if you're going to be really picky about the definition, Almost 45% of the census blocks in the US have a population of zero, which is pretty stunning if you think about it. http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/nobody-lives-here-a-beautif..…
> I guess it depends on how you define uninhabited - if I've got a 50,000 acre ranch with a 2800 sq ft house on it, most people are going to call the bulk of that land uninhabited. Okay, but then then suburbs are uninhabited too. The neighborhood I'm in has 1500-2000 sqft houses on 10ksqft lots. That's 80-85% uninhabited, especially once you start to add up the amount of extra land for streets, ditches, canals, parks…
50,000 acres is 2 billion sq ft, for a house:land ratio of 1:1 million. The 1:10 in the suburbs is a completely different matter.
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#88Seems to be a close relative of the Breadfruit which is similarly thought to be a good way to feed people or so the tour guide told us when I visited the National Botanical Garden. http://ntbg.org/breadfruit/breadfruit/
Never had jackfruit, but I do miss my aunt's deep fried breadfruit. Mmmm.
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#89Not popular in India? News to me. Maybe not all over India. But in Kerala, the state I am from, Jackfruit is pretty popular there and is used to make a wide variety of dishes. My grandparents house has many jackfruit trees and we always had jackfruit to eat. It tastes nothing like pulled pork to me though. It's mainly sweet and very slightly tangy/sour. Fresh jackfruit has a kind of "crunch" to it. I can't really des…
I can't speak for everyone in Andhra, but cooked jackfruit regularly appears at my family's meals. More commonly eaten in the village than the city, perhaps. Popular with devout or health-conscious folks as a meat substitute.
My cousin's father-in-law served jackfruit biryani at his wedding banquet.
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#90This article presumes that India has one cuisine, where Jackfruit is avoided. This is false as India has several cuisines and Jackfruit is used in several of those cuisines. But if the article writer was looking for Tandoori Jackfruit, then yes, that is true -- there is not tandoori jackfruit!
Kathal kebab is fairly close to "tandoori jackfruit".