Once cooked, the fruit is a perfect, light ending to a hearty barbecue, more substantial than an after-dinner mint but less filling than a cake or pie.

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The hotel's restaurant has unveiled a speedy new breakfast and lunch menu, sporting favourites like French crepes prepared with Nutella, fresh fruit and homemade compote (fruit cooked in a sauce or syrup).

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After the main courses are cooked, I place the fruit on the grill.

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An altar is erected and piled high with offerings to the invisible visitors: flowers, ribbons, coloured candles, tamales (steam-cooked cornmeal dough), fruit and corn.

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That is because unlike ground beef, which is cooked at a temperatures which destroy bugs, fruit and leafy vegetables tend to be eaten raw.

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Instead of fruit-tree wood, the ducks here are cooked in an oven with straw as fuel.

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Throughout the year, most hotels have Tahitian shows and feasts of fei (cooked banana), uru (breadfruit) and poe (a fruit and tapioca dessert served with coconut milk) at least once a week.

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