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Pejibaye Festival in Tucurrique Costa Rica

When one thinks of a pejibaye, or peach palm fruit, most often their mind goes to the curious orange ball that has a dollop of mayo it. The Pejibaye Festival, now in its 21st year, reveals that this giving tree can be so much more. The Festival Every year around the end of September a

Pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes) Peach Palm – Harvesting to Cooking (VIDEO)

By Kimberly Beck10/31/2011Fruits, Foods, Recipes of Costa Rica, Travel Video'scooking, Costa Rica, food, harvest, palm, peach, pejibaye, video

Harvesting, Cooking and Preparing Pejibaye, Peach Palm Fruit Pejibaye, or Peach Palm, is a squash type fruit that grows high in the leaves of an extremely spiny and dangerous palm tree here in Costa Rica. Twice a year this palm opens up a huge clam shell leaf and white seeds hang on strings from it,

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Pejibaye Festival in Tucurrique Costa Rica

Pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes) Peach Palm – Harvesting to Cooking (VIDEO)