Durian’s smell does not politely fade. The same volatile sulfur compounds that make Durio zibethinus reek of onions and gym socks cling to your fingers
People mix up durian and jackfruit constantly, and it is an understandable mistake, since both are big, green, spike-covered tropical fruits that turn
Durian’s reputation is built on a lie its own smell tells. The fruit throws off an odor people compare to onions or old gym socks, then delivers
Durian is not one fruit but a whole genus wearing the same spiky coat. Botanists count around 30 species in the genus Durio, and roughly nine of them bear
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