Five Fingers
07/05/07 17:07 Filed in: Photography
For those of you who haven't bitten into the juicy acid-sweetness of "five fingers" recently, here's something to remind you.
Carambola (its proper name) is an odd delicacy for most Trinis, occupying the same space in the national palate as pommecythere as a fruit that's relished more when it's unripe than when it's full and orange-yellow like you see them here on a tree at my mother's house.
Rolling the exposed pulp of a greenish-yellow "five fingers" in salt and then biting into it with your face properly screwed up was one of the great pleasures of my youth.
This photo was shot with a camera phone, specifically the one built into my Nokia N80, which I picked up at this launch. The battery's starting to fail quickly now and it's as useless as any other camera phone in low light, but I'm finding it useful to add illustrations to these entries.
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