durian

The honest answer to where durian grows is a thin belt around the equator, not the sprawling map hopeful gardeners picture. Durio zibethinus is ultra-tropical

D24, the durian Malaysians once called Sultan, wore the crown for decades before Musang King took it. This cultivar of Durio zibethinus was registered

Ask three durian buyers to name the most popular durian and you get three answers, because popularity splits along two lines: raw export tonnage and what

Durian versus coffee sounds like a mismatch, and in one sense it is: one is a heavy tropical fruit, the other a hot drink. Yet people line them up all

Most people toss durian seeds without a second thought, which is a small shame. Cooked properly, those seeds turn into a starchy, nutty snack that tastes

A single durian once sold for about 48,000 dollars. Not a crate, not a season’s harvest, one fruit, auctioned in Thailand to a bidder who wanted

Every durian season the same warnings make the rounds. Do not drink Coke after durian. Milk and durian will supposedly kill you. Never touch it near beer or coffee.

The question comes up before almost anyone tries durian: if the aroma reads as gym locker and rotting onion, why would you put it in your mouth?

Durian sticky rice is the fruit’s answer to the mango version that put Thai dessert on the map. Warm coconut-soaked glutinous rice does the heavy

The D13 is the durian plenty of people have eaten without knowing it. Stalls across Singapore and Malaysia sell it under a flashier name, and its deep