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The first time Dana Shapiro cooked breadfruit, she wasn’t terribly impressed.
Shapiro bought one of the hard, football-sized fruits at a farmers market on Kauai, left it out overnight on her kitchen counter, and was surprised to find it soft and mushy the next day. To salvage the fruit, she baked it with butter and brown sugar and served it with ice cream.
“It was good, but definitely a little bit weird for people who weren’t accustomed to eating it,” Shapiro said.
