The Miracle Berry

After reading this piece in the Times, I once again want to encourage anyone within striking distance of Miami to visit the Fruit and Spice Park. There you can behold (and probably sample) the miracle berry discussed in the article for yourself. A small, West African fruit with the power to make sour taste sweet, it has apparently become the catalyst for the food orgies of some Manhattanite gluttons.

I'm told that the folks at the Fruit and Spice Park sometimes allow chemo patients to harvest their crop to enhance their sense of taste and stimulate their appetites, which is perhaps a more noble use than that of the "flavor trippers."

(photo courtesy of Kinky Solutions.)