Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Fruits (Handy Pocket Guides)

This handy pocket-guide has detailed photos of tropical fruit as they look close-up & of the trees on which they grow. They cover 40 fruits in depth; I especially enjoyed learning the names of these fruits as they're commonly known in their countries of origin. If you have a local 'Rare Fruit Club,' you'll want to join it after reading this 62-page mouth-watering look at exotic and interesting fruit from the Tropics.Can you say "rambutan?" (RAM-boo-tan) If it's as much fun to eat as it is to say, I'll be delighted! One fruit it did not feature is the dragon fruit (aka pittaya) and I'm growing it in southwest Florida. Delicious & lovely to look at; tastes similar to a kiwi, perhaps.

This author does an excellent job on his descriptions and photos are magnificent.

it is really interesting to look up different fruits ,especially if there are some you have not tried before would recommend it

The book contains very good photos and descriptions of tropical fruits, ideal for the person travelling to tropical climates and wishing to have some basic background about fruits, or for anyone who is curious about tropical fruits. It also has a compact but very good selection of recipes of tropical fruit dishes.However, the book does tend to be a bit too 'Asian' biased, in as much as the book deals with the encounters of the fruits by the author presumably whilst travelling through in Asia. Many of the fruits in the books are in fact Central and South American in origin, and the uses given to these fruits in those regions are not noted by the author.From personal experience, Cashew Apples (Anacardium occidentale) tend to be found red, yellow or pink-ish in fairly equal distribution (at least in Panama), while the author claims the red variety is much more rare. Such might be the case in Asia.Again, as a startup guide, this is a good book, but for the reader seeking more detailed information this may be not good enough.

good

excellent

Short, concise with really useful information.