Comments on: More Fruits Worth a Voyage Around the World http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/04/more-fruits-worth-a-voyage-around-the-world/ Just another blogs.smithsonianmag.com site Sun, 12 May 2013 14:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Alastair Bland http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/04/more-fruits-worth-a-voyage-around-the-world/#comment-397 Alastair Bland Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:04:29 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=2139#comment-397 Comment from the author: I don't agree that cashew wine is generally bad, and I have never suffered one of these legendary cashew wine hangovers. I traveled in Belize 10 years ago, and I drank cashew wine many times - cashew wine made in shacks and corked with plugs of wood, and commercially produced cashew wine bought in markets. I don't know that I ever encountered an exceptionally bad one. It's true: The flavor is strange and a bit pungent - but that's the flavor of travel and discovery. Comment from the author: I don’t agree that cashew wine is generally bad, and I have never suffered one of these legendary cashew wine hangovers. I traveled in Belize 10 years ago, and I drank cashew wine many times – cashew wine made in shacks and corked with plugs of wood, and commercially produced cashew wine bought in markets. I don’t know that I ever encountered an exceptionally bad one. It’s true: The flavor is strange and a bit pungent – but that’s the flavor of travel and discovery.

]]> By: Belize http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/04/more-fruits-worth-a-voyage-around-the-world/#comment-395 Belize Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:25:04 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=2139#comment-395 Belize Cashew Wine is not exported and perhaps rightly so. The anecdotal account of the wine getting you drunk twice derives I think from the terrible hangover it induces. No one I know having experienced a cashew wine hangover tries it twice. It is really that bad. A half glass over cracked ice as an appetizer is enough. This refers to the "real" cashew wine that is home made and popular in rural areas of the Belize River Valley where cashew grows wild. Commercially produced versions are not the same... Belize Cashew Wine is not exported and perhaps rightly so. The anecdotal account of the wine getting you drunk twice derives I think from the terrible hangover it induces.

No one I know having experienced a cashew wine hangover tries it twice. It is really that bad. A half glass over cracked ice as an appetizer is enough.

This refers to the “real” cashew wine that is home made and popular in rural areas of the Belize River Valley where cashew grows wild. Commercially produced versions are not the same…

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