Latest World Avocado News

Cocaine, heroin and avocados
How are avocados connected to Mexican drug cartels? Reports of ‘blood avocados’ say the Knights Templar Cartel is using violence and extortion to tap into the $1.5b industry. read more...

Ten delicious health benefits to eating more avocado
Would you believe that the avocado is considered by many nutritional experts to be a perfect food? it's not really a vegetable, it's a fruit, it's often called the alligator pear because of its shape and dark green roughly textured skin. Though avocados are heavy in calories, those are nutrient dense calories. And the fats are heart healthy monounsaturated fats and omega-3. read more...

California's avocado flowers in bloom
 It’s the first day of spring, and what says spring more than fresh, beautiful flowers? 
A lot of people don’t realize it, but avocado trees have flowers that bloom in the spring time.
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HaveAnAvocado

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the avocado is the greatest edible substance known to man, or at least to one man here it is.  As mentioned in the linked post the key is in the timing of catching the ripeness window and I have now invented a system to ensure I am never left staring for days on end, being teased by a gastronomically provocative avocado.  The system is simple and best explained by the following image.....

the avocado

avocados on my window sill-
still not ripe,
when can i eat you?

i respect the avocado.  the flesh of a perfectly ripe avocado is a truly wonderful eating experience but its allure is made so much more intriguing by its mysterious reluctance to give any indication of when it will be ready to eat.  when i buy my avocados they're usually all hard and not so great for eating quite yet so i put them to one side for a couple of days in the kitchen until they're nice and ripe.  the avocado however has its own way of doing things, it says to itself "well i might be ripe in a couple of days but if i feel like it i'll make you wait a week", if on this basis you decide to leave them for a week it'll sneakily ripen while you're not looking and then be over ripe, brown and gungy just when you fancy eating it.  a frustratingly awkward fruit but one that you can't help but admire and respect because apart from when it's being eaten the avocado calls the shots.