• Creative Non-fiction,  Food,  Uncategorized

    ¿Pistachee?

     

    There is a row of beautiful trees lining Avenida Mexico in front of Parque Hidalgo here in Puerto Vallarta. I walk by these trees several times each week and right now they are heavy with a fruit I mistook for olives.

    I asked an old man sitting in the park what kind of tree this was—“¿Qué  tipo de árbol es este?

    Arrayan,” he replied.

    I thought he was wrong. So I took a couple of pictures and pulled down a high branch to examine the fruit.

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