We were walking down the hill from the train station in Nice, and my attention was arrested by a tree with a fruit I had never seen before. Coming from Quebec, and loving food, I have a pretty wide vocabulary for edible things, but when a friend French man noticed my interest, he told me the name and even wrote it down on my bag for me, but it was not until I came across the name again did I realize that the fruit was a Kumquat!
Maybe I should go to the fruit store in spring and ask for a fortunella, and see if that's what we call it here.
If I had had more familiarity, I would have picked one, ripe in the French Riviera springtime and eaten it!
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| The "fortunella" tree |
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| The nice man about to give up in explaining what this silly tourist should understand! |
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