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61.) the neglected blog

Over one day ago | Sun Sep 7 12:34:00 PDT 2008

i made my first calabash last weekend. a calabash, by union island standards, is a bowl made out of the fruit of the boli tree. boli is a round green fruit that can grow to about half a foot in diameter. it has a hard brittle shell with ...

From Krista

62.) inspired by brit lit 1, winter break freshman year

Over one day ago | Fri Nov 21 19:54:00 PST 2008

If you eat this fruit, you shall die. And so we die. But every once in a while we soar above the clouds and see the sun; all the rules of gravity and time and decay are suspended; and we fly by sheer grace, undeserved, irrational in our ...

From Lucinda

63.) Ivory Coast Diary

Over one day ago | Fri Oct 24 12:00:00 PDT 2008

We saw cocoa plants, sugar cane, guava fruit trees and rice. At one point we crossed a river on two logs acting as a bridge of sorts. The leaders carried machetes in case we came across anything dangerous. We did: a black snake ? small, ...

From Stephen Dunning

64.) montserrat celebrates annual calabash festival

Over one day ago | Wed Jul 2 7:32:00 PDT 2008

named after the calabash fruit that was traditionally used to produce eating utensils, musical instruments and decorative items, the festival seeks to promote the destination?s local craft industry to the rest of the world. ...

From unknown

65.) "Parang" Trinidad?s traditional Christmas music.

Over one day ago | Thu Dec 11 11:14:00 PST 2008

Maracas (chac-chac or ?shak-shak?): A pair of small gourd rattlers usually made from the fruit of the calabash tree. The dried fruit is then hollowed out and the naturally dried seeds of the fruit, Bakelite or metal contain beads, ...

From Caribbean Native

66.) around the kitchen table - world cultures

Over one day ago | Fri Sep 5 13:47:00 PDT 2008

maracas originate from central and south america where legend tells of a goddess wrapping white stones in a calabash gourd (the dried fruit of a calabash tree) to make the first maraca. as well as gourds, today they are made out plastic ...

From admin

67.) the time machine....again

Over one day ago | Thu Oct 9 9:14:00 PDT 2008

that we have choices in life, you don?t have to buy twelve pairs of shoes, haagen daz ice cream, foreign fruit and yogurt or huge boxes of food at lunch and dinner to make you happy. at the risk of sounding like my grandparents with ...

From Coffeewallah

68.) gourd cookies??

Over one day ago | Tue Oct 14 3:50:00 PDT 2008

it told me that they are calabash, and i followed a link to that article. i was a bit distrusting because it didn't sound much like a cookie (especially when i looked at the ingredients), but it turned out pretty good. ...

From Rebecca

69.) Blogging Banana Joe's Fruit Stand Kauai: Calabash Tree First Bloom!

Over one day ago | Wed Mar 5 0:00:00 PST 2008

At first I spotted what I thought was a young calabash on a tree, I'd missed the flowering. Then this morning I saw that the small round green thing had opened. Hope we get some fruit set and calabash (Crescentia cujete L.) this year. ...

From Blogging Banana Joe's Fruitstand

70.) The tobacco revolution

Over one day ago | Fri Dec 12 5:28:00 PST 2008

[24] It was smoked in calabash water pipes with terra cotta smoking bowls, apparently an Ethiopian invention which was later conveyed to eastern, southern and central Africa. Tobacco was introduced around 1600 by French merchants in ...

From B-13

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