“Try a piece of jackfruit,” offered Yao Richard with a smile the first time we met at Live Oak Gardens wholesale nursery in New Iberia.
She handed me a slice, and we struck up a conversation about the improbable foods we can grow in semitropical South Louisiana. She has been introducing me to new locally grown flavors ever since — the corn-like taste of bamboo shoots, the salty bite of homegrown olives, and recently, the fresh crunch of a green papaya salad.
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