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
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?