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DURIAN I am not an adventurous eater. Never have. Never will be. If you're a parent, there's a very good chance that your child has a more educated palette than my own. Really. Anatomically correct? Yuck! Stinky? No way. Given this, you might be surprised that I managed to suck it up while in Kuala Lumpur and tasted durian.  Calvin Trillin mentions durian in this week's Food Issue of the New Yorker, Three Chopsticks, Does street food make the best cuisine, pg. 48: "According to what's listed on a widely sold souvenir T-shirt emblazoned "Singapore -- A Fine City," the acts that can bring you a serious fine include not only gum-chewing and littering and smoking and spitting but also carrying a durian on a public conveyance. A durian is an astonishingly odoriferous melon, much prized in Southeast Asia. Having smelled a durian, I must say that the prohibition against carrying one on a public conveyance (for which there is no specific fine) strikes me as a very solid piece of legislation. In American terms, it's the equivalent of a law against carrying a cattle feedlot on a public conveyance." Manny captured my experience:  
09/ 5/2007
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