Carambola
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Author(s): Charlotte Balcom of The Sentinel Staff
Section: FOOD
Publication title: Orlando Sentinel. Orlando, Fla.: Oct 23, 1986. pg. G.1
Source type: Newspaper
Copyright 1986 by The Orlando Sentinel)
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A carambola craze, a veritable starfruit rage, is sweeping the nation, and Florida can claim to be one of the fountainheads. In the last few years, starfruit have increasingly shown up on fashionable tables, on the rims of frothy, tropical cocktails and on the pages of slick, gourmet magazines.
The waxy, five-finned fruits with their biting, tart-sweet flavor can claim to be a bona fide, home-grown tropical specialty. South Florida is the only area in the contiguous United States with the perfect mixture of warmth and high humidity to grow starfruit, though they're also grown in the Caribbean, West Indies,......
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