So I recently fell in love with the bizarre fruit known as the kumquat. It's intensely tasty, plus it's nutritious and low cal. It's sort of like eating little marmalade bullets, sweet and sour and bitter all at once, but with no jammy guilt or anything.
Yet kumquats must have really crappy social skills! Or the poor fruit hasn't figured out it needs some PR and marketing help. Because even though I've always been vaguely aware they existed, I hadn't ever actually tried one until this year.
Kumquats are hard to find in stores, even in season. I finally scored some at a farmers market after a friend turned me on to them, approximately 50 years after I first heard of them. (It didn't help that all these years I had them confused with loquats, which as kids we used to steal off neighbors' fruit trees and called them kumquats. But loquats are an entirely different fruit. Loquats are yellow and smooth-skinned and not citrusy, and have a big-ass seed in the middle. They are tasty too, if you have a nearby tree to steal from).
So, what's so awesome about kumquats anyway?
