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Chili pepper, Food on Fridays, Gluten-free, Gluten-free diet, Seed, Shopping, South America, Tamarind, Taste, Tropical Africa
This month our book club read Lost in the Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg. The book will be released as a movie and everyone enjoyed the harrowing trip into the amazon with Yossi. Apparently it is a guys book and a great gift for the men in your life, but our club gave it an excellent rating and we are exclusively a women’s book club in our neighborhood.
Our hostess Clara (the one with the loquat tree in her yard) served a sensory delight of foods and one of his survival foods Tamarind.
Tamarind is the healthy equal to sour gummy worms. I could not stop eating them last night. They would replace popcorn during a movie with all the tactile work involved. You crack them open and a delicious fruit waits inside. The consistency is a little like a fig. The taste is both sour and sweet.
Trish Southard 
Where in the world would I find something like that? I’m completely fascinated by your description, but feel a little at a loss for where to locate some to try. Anything compared to gummie worms is going to pique my interest!!
I’m going to stop by neighbor Clara’s to find out where she found it. I wanted to snack on some at the game last night while everyone was opening wrappers of skittles, mentos, warheads. Tamarind are a perfect food for snacking. We don’t have to travel to Bolivia thank goodness, although that sounds like a trip we need to take Ann.