Yesterday afternoon, Jayakumar and the others at the lab introduced me to a new food, the Jacob’s fruit. We all climbed on the roof of the lab (accessible by stairway), and cut up the unusual fruit. Sitting cross-legged (Indian style?) on the roof, with the wind blowing off the ghats, Raja’s cellphone playing Tamil music, and stuffing myself with the sweet fruit, I realized that I only have 10 more days in this magical place.
While we were washing the sticky Jake fruit juice off of our hands, Devani turned and said to me, “You won’t have company like us in the
I know.
2 comments:
I searched Wikipedia for "Jacob's Fruit" since I wanted to see what it looked like; there were no results. Next, I "googled" Jacob's fruit: the first result was your blog, so I don't believe it exists.
I can certainly notice an improvement in your writing, though! Methinks you've been reading a lot :).
I searched for Jacob's Fruit as well and didn't find anything mentioning it except your blog...
I only searched it after my dad brought one home which was a gift from an agricultural engineer. The AE told him it was the rarest fruit in the world and that it only grows from one tree here, in Al Kanater, Egypt
Dunno if this is true but the fruit was delicious nonetheless and a very daring experience to "dig in" because of it's odd looks :D
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