Seasonal and Cultural Eating? Part 2

In my previous post on seasonal and cultural eating, I stated that I think that we need to pay attention to when we eat certain foods and eating within our cultural scope. I'm not saying that occasionally you wouldn't feel for something outside of the normal day to day routine or just want to try something new at times. However, I think life is not as arbitrary as we think. The seasons, patterns, resources are interconnected. There is a purpose to every fruit, every herb, every plant or substance on the earth. Maybe seasons guide us in the way we should utilize food. There is a reason why certain fruits ended up in certain regions.

For instance, maybe there is a reason why we don't have regular apples in the Caribbean, but rather we have Golden apple (Pomme Cythere) which is a way better fruit... to me. Let me give you a story. My dad made some Golden apple juice some days ago. To make it, you have to boil the fruit in water and extract the juice. When we looked at the pot we used to boil it in, it literally cleaned the pot. I mean it you would swear someone used Oxiclean or some bleaching agent and scrubbed it for hours. Whatever is in this fruit cleaned up this pot and imagine what it can do for your body. We know our body needs cleaning at times.

Pomme Cythere is a French name which means apple of Cytherea (Another name for Venus). The tree may bear about 3 times per year. There is not much information about the contents but I will surely do another write up about this and other fruits. Perhaps, it contains something that we need here in warmer climates.





Just some food for thought...