My passion for an exotic tropical fruit known as the quenepa recently found its way into a digital magazine called, fittingly, The Magazine, and edited by Glenn Fleishman.

Glenn has collected a number of the fantastic essays and articles from the various issues into a gorgeous hardcover book along with an e-book. My quenepa piece is not in the hardcover but it does show up in the e-book, which has a larger content assortment. More …

(Note: This essay originally was published in The Magazine, the iOS-based e-magazine created by Marco Arment and edited by Glenn Fleishman.)

The quenepa is a tree-grown fruit found in a gigantic swath of the tropics: From Florida to Mexico it grows, and across the Caribbean and Central and South America. It is my favorite fruit, by far, because it is a bit like candy. More …