Have you recently strolled down your grocery store's produce aisle and spotted a beautifully bizarre fruit that beckons with long, yellow fingers? This is the Buddha's hand citron, a distinctive ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. One of the most exotic-looking items in high-end produce departments is ...

Winter is citrus season, which means you find a lot more than plain oranges in your produce aisle. Meyer lemons, yuzu, satsuma mandarins, and more are gracing supermarkets this time of year. They’re ...

Or did it turn up in one of Scully and Mulder's X-Files? None of the above. It's a Buddha's hand or fingered citron, indigenous to the lower Himalayas. It is a traditional temple offering and New Year ...

Slicing the Buddha’s hand on a mandoline produced delightful disks of fragrant pith, perfectly sized for fitting inside a spoon when doling out the marmalade. I boiled the fruit for half an hour to ...

There are few things as alien-looking as a Buddha’s hand. Most people I’ve talked with have never even heard of it or seen it, and when I show them a picture ...