How can something so beautiful, so very Garden of Eden-looking (if the Garden of Eden were located in Chiang Mai), smell so awful? A few years ago, I took a whole durian into a parking lot—I had been ...

WAILUA — The durian is such an exotic fruit, it drew comments from almost all of the attendees to the 20th Hawai‘i International Tropical Fruit Conference, Friday. “It’s still packed in the box, ...