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A Mauritian Delicacy with a Long Pedigree:

Chou Palmiste or Palm-heart Salad One of the speciality dishes enjoyed by visitors to Mauritius is palm heart salad, often served nowadays with prawns or other accompaniments. Throughout the history of settlement of the islands, visitors have remarked on this refreshing and delicious dish which, however was seen by some as profligate, because its consumption entailed the destruction of the palm tree of which it is the...

The Remarkable Story of the Banana

Belfast-born Charles Telfair, first arrived in the Indian Ocean as a naval surgeon aboard a ship sent to blockade the Isle of France during the Napoleonic Wars.After the conquest Telfair settled on Mauritius. He helped to found the Natural History Society and established a worldwide network of correspondents. He received and forwarded seeds and cuttings of plants and live or preserved specimens of fauna thereby...