The plant is indeed the Calabash Tree (Crescentia cujete). Its fruit are inedible. When dried, the mature fruit’s hard shells can be made into musical instruments and other receptacles. The tree is ...

Calabash is a popular word in the Caribbean. Many island restaurants, cafes, hotels and resorts have the word calabash in their name. Right here in West Philadelphia, at 63rd and Malvern, there is the ...

During a visit by the Bermuda Hunt Club, possibly in the 1930s, the building was labeled “Tom Moore’s House Tavern”, with the unlikely date for its construction of 1632. The famous calabash tree stood ...

Question: Is a gourd a fruit or a vegetable? Can you eat it? Would you want to? And how many useful items can you make from its hollowed shell? The Western Colorado Botanical Gardens is celebrating ...

A restaurant which brings the fiery flavours of Trinidad & Tobago to the banks of the Wear has been recognised at a national awards. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland Echo, you ...