A SRI LANKAN FRUIT STORY
In February of 2018 I was lucky enough to spend a few weeks along the South-Western coast of Sri Lanka. The roadside fruit stalls were colorful and bewitching. You had to stop. It was like visiting a butchers shop, the local guys would clean and cut up the fruit, and if you wanted a taste, you got that too. What? Didn't you taste the ground chuck when it was still rare? And most of the time when they handed me a dripping slice of fruit, I had no idea what I was tasting.
Towards the end of my stay I went to the stand and bought up everything that I hadn't tried yet and the things I knew I loved. I wanted to photograph the fruits of Sri Lanka. The Really Good (Jackfruit), the Bad (Wood apple) and the Ugly (wrinkled Passion Fruit). The jackfruit is like candy and goes great in a curry. The wood apple smells like old cheese and raisins, which is strangely addicting (no one else thought so...), the passion fruit was tart and crunchy, I'd take a spoonful of those seeds any morning. The hardest one to figure out was the darn sapodilla, even the local guys we were staying with had no idea.
To get to the point, all the fruit ended up in our granola, but they made great portraits too. You can see my instagram post and click through the gallery below. Oh, and if you want a daily dose of this beautiful cafe in the background check out @merakisrilanka. We stayed with the fun couple who runs it, even helped them make some palm tree stools.
Towards the end of my stay I went to the stand and bought up everything that I hadn't tried yet and the things I knew I loved. I wanted to photograph the fruits of Sri Lanka. The Really Good (Jackfruit), the Bad (Wood apple) and the Ugly (wrinkled Passion Fruit). The jackfruit is like candy and goes great in a curry. The wood apple smells like old cheese and raisins, which is strangely addicting (no one else thought so...), the passion fruit was tart and crunchy, I'd take a spoonful of those seeds any morning. The hardest one to figure out was the darn sapodilla, even the local guys we were staying with had no idea.
To get to the point, all the fruit ended up in our granola, but they made great portraits too. You can see my instagram post and click through the gallery below. Oh, and if you want a daily dose of this beautiful cafe in the background check out @merakisrilanka. We stayed with the fun couple who runs it, even helped them make some palm tree stools.