Blogger extraordinaire, Maggie Mason, has done quite a lot to encourage the idea of a "life list" — the things you want to make time for and check off your "someday I'll..." mental list. Hers includes one thing I really admire and applaud (especially during Fruit Week!): Maggie wants to taste 1,000 different fruits!
Her travels have taken her around the world, where she has tasted diverse things like cherry guava, chico, mangosteen, rose apples and huckleberries. It's so fun to watch her make her way through fruit after fruit; it inspires me to try something similar!
• Read more about Maggie's quest to taste 1,000 fruits: Taste 1000 Fruits at Mighty Girl
• Read an interview with Maggie: A Mighty Girl's Quest to Taste 1,000 Kinds of Fruit at Bon Appetit
How many different fruits do you think you've tasted in your life?
Related: Support Rare Fruit: Chicago Rarities Orchard Project
(Images: Maggie Mason of Mighty Girl)
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I wish I could find a list of all the fruits she's tried. My favorite obscure fruit was the salak I had in Bali. With a shell that comes off like a hard-boiled egg, fruit that looks vaguely like large cloves of garlic, the texture of a granny smith apple, and the taste of a strawberry... I gorged.
Sadly, as far as I know, they do not export it to the US.
What about forbidden fruit? lolz
/shows self the door
Awesome! I would say maybe... 100? On a recent trip to Ecuador, we went to the grocery store on a specific trip to buy as many different fruits as we could. I tried quite a few, like chirimoya and guanabana. They were awesome!
For setting and getting goals, you may want to check out a goal setting app called GoalsOnTrack, a very nicely built web app designed for tracking goals and todo lists, and supports time tracking too. It's clear, focused, easy to navigate.
I spy a tamarind on the left. So ugly. So very,very tasty.