Ask ten durian sellers to explain the difference between Black Pearl and Black Gold, and you may get eleven answers. Both are rare, dark-fleshed, premium
Every exotic grower in Southern California eventually gets asked about durian, usually by someone who tried it once on a trip to Bangkok and either loved
You cannot pack durian so it smells like nothing. Anyone who promises that has never opened a bag that leaked in a hot car. What you can do is contain
The thorns give D14 away before the flesh does. They are big and hooked, and I have the scars to prove this durian does not want to be opened casually.
Freeze-dried durian is the version of the king that fits in a backpack. It weighs almost nothing and keeps for months on a shelf instead of hours in a fridge.
Walk through any night market in Penang or Bangkok between June and August, and one stall pulls the longest line. You smell it before you see it, a sweet
You spot a D10 by its green cap, and you lose one to its habit of splitting before you are ready. A ripe fruit cracked open on the branch in my greenhouse
People ask me this at every tasting, expecting a one-word answer, and I have learned to smile before I ruin it for them. The honest reply to which country
The first D11 that dropped in my greenhouse fooled me. No stench rolled out to announce it, so I found the fruit sitting on the floor by sight rather than
Picking a durian is the part beginners skip and then regret. The husk gives away almost nothing to an untrained eye, so people grab the biggest fruit