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The Avocado

Seed Trick

I love slicing into a fresh and perfectly

ripened avocado. My favorite variety has
bumpy dark green skin and lets me know
it is ready when it turns a shade of almost

black. Inside the signature greentoned
flesh near the skin of the fruit turns to

a festive shade of bright yellow-green
closer to the large slippery brown seed
held in the avocado’s center.

I first discovered avocados when

I wanted to learn to grow one as a
houseplant at the age of seven. I had read
in a magazine that this could be done in to come I was amazed watching it grow

a glass of water and as a junior scientist into a luscious plant.
I had to give it a try. My mother agreed
and took me to the store to search for the Not wanting to be wasteful the day of the

perfect subject for my experiment. With experiment, my mother and I decided
advice from the fruit-seller, we chose a to be adventurous and tried the buttery

ripe and exquisite specimen. flesh of the delightful fruit.

I followed the directions carefully My mother had not grown up with an
opening the pear-shaped piece of expanded pallet for various cuisines. It
produce so as to not damage the gift was not until I came along that she began

of its seed inside. After gently piercing to dive in deeply to Gourmet Magazine
three toothpicks placed strategically in and taste outside of her comfort zone.
tripod fashion into the seed, I submerged This was a monumentous turning-

the bulbous form halfway into its new point. We began trying avocados at
watery home. In the weeks and months restaurants—discovering new ways

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