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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Menus for all their children, from babies up to five-year-olds, include lots of fish, meat, vegetarian food and pulses, and dessert is usually fruit.

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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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Cherries are made for that wonderfully simple French dessert, a batter poured over fruit and baked to custardy perfection.

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The artichoke appetizer had gone awry and came second, but it was worth the wait--boiled to semi-baby-food consistency and with the season's first fava beans. (They stole the show.) I ended with a whole grilled fish and, at the urging of two guys at the next table, Paradiso's prize dessert, sponge cake with dried fruit and sweetened ricotta cheese.

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The first course of the macrobiotic meal was baby Cos lettuce salad with coconut vinaigrette, followed by miso-marinated sablefish, with seasonal fruit salad and sorbet for dessert.

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One of the items for sale, and that seemed to elicit as much excitement on Mr. Payard's part as his dessert inspiration candles (Oatmeal Lavender, Passion Fruit and Coconut Lime) or decadent Baba au Rhum in a jar, was an incongruous piece of cutlery in a presentation box.

WSJ: A Simmering Bake-Off

After all (as the board points out), it worked for the Chinese gooseberry, a hairy rarity until New Zealand's farmers banded together and propelled the kiwi fruit on to the world's dessert trolleys.

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