Antonio Izumi emailed his concern for an exotic fruit tree: “I wanted to ask you about my white sapote tree, purchased about two years ago. As recommended, I planted it in full sun, yet it nearly died ...

Each cocktail is named for its main regional ingredient. The Mamey, after the amaretto-flavored fruit that grows on zapote trees, uses rums flavored for 24 hours with pineapple, lime, mamey, mamey ...

There is a Costa Rican expression my wife likes to use when I am overconfident about a situation: El mejor mono cae del zapote. The best (or most agile) monkey falls from the (zapote) tree is a rough ...