In the U.S., a big maker of so-called squeezable fruit is Peter Rabbit Organics, a closely held British firm with products in more than 8, 000 outlets, including 6, 000 Starbucks Corp.

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The countryside around here forms some of Mali's richest farmland - flat fields of corn and rice interspersed with big fruit trees.

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The breadfruit was Mau's favourite tree anyway: tall and light, with a twisty grain excellent for boat-building, sticky latex for caulking, and big starchy fruit which, fermented, made the ideal food for an ocean voyage.

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The secrets: The kind of old-fashioned, small-lot, artisanal distilling all but abandoned by the big Cognac houses, and the added fruit character of the local pinot noir.

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So now, it's like I have to - my life is like Planters and fruit now, and living right do it, like - it's a big thing being in the desert, too.

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After a big bowl of vegetable soup - the best yet - we resist the temptation of a Dracula dessert (fruit ice cream and jam in a pancake) and walk out through the Wolf Room into the dying day.

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