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Kiwi is probably my favourite Winter fruit. Its joyful green colour and refreshing taste give me energy and make me forget the gloomy and\/or cold weather outside. I am also conscious of the precious vitamin C it contains (twice as much as a lemon) as well as antioxidants, potassium and vitamins A and E. Kiwi is usually associated with New Zealand, but is nowadays cultivated all around the world. The fruits I have recently been buying come from an organic orchard in France.<\/p>\n
Kiwi was not always called this way. Its most popular variety is native to China and the fruit was initially called “Chinese gooseberry”. It started to be cultivated in New Zealand at the beginning of the XXth century and its exportation boomed after the Second World War. When, in the 50s US importers suggested another name (not bearing the word “Chinese”) New Zealanders have chosen the name of their famous flightless bird.<\/p>\n
A couple of days ago I saw a kiwi cocktail on Shizuoka Gourmet’s blog<\/a>. The cocktail was created by Masayoshi Tainaka at “Le Refuge” bar in Shizuoka City (click here<\/a> to see their website in Japanese) and proved even more extraordinary than it looked. It is refreshing, delicate, slightly tangy and I love the unusual crunch the kiwi seeds give. It is one of the most exceptional cocktails of my life and definitely the healthiest alcohol drink I have ever had. Thank you, Robert-Gilles, for this wonderful discovery!<\/p>\n I have slightly modified the original recipe doubling the fruit amount to create a long drink and adding orange liqueur to improve the complexity (maybe my French kiwis were blander than the Japanese ones?). Click here<\/a> to see the original, unadulterated recipe.<\/p>\n Before I pass to the recipe details, I would like to play the game I have been tagged for by Charles (5 Euro Food<\/a>).\u00a0 This bloggers’ game consists in telling some personal details about oneself and then tagging other bloggers to play it.<\/p>\n 1. Describe yourself in seven words (Since I find it difficult to boast of my qualities, I have chosen seven negative words)<\/p>\n Impatient, clumsy, anxious, lazy, inaccurate, undisciplined, messy.<\/p>\n 2. What keeps you up at night?<\/p>\n A fascinating book I am reluctant to put down.<\/p>\n 3. Who would you like to be?<\/p>\n It might sound pretentious, but I don’t admire anyone in his or her totality, so I would like to take the qualities and skills from many people.<\/p>\n 4. What are you wearing right now?<\/p>\n Nothing special, but I have perfectly styled hair ( I have just come back from my hairdresser \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n 5. What scares you?<\/p>\n Many things… About blogging? Just like Charles said, data loss is the scariest thing.<\/p>\n 6. What are the best and worst things about blogging?<\/p>\n I will not be very original here and answer like most bloggers. The wonderful people I meet from all around the world, the things I discover and learn, the opinions I can exchange, the motivation it gives me to improve my cooking and, with more difficulty, photography skills as well as my written English.<\/p>\n The worst are certainly the technical problems which happen to almost every blogger… Personally I find it depressing when I am not able to take a satisfactory photo of an exceptional dish I absolutely want to share.<\/p>\n 7.What was the last website you visited?<\/p>\n Charles’s blog<\/a> of course (Five Euro Food<\/a>). I have copied and pasted the questions \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n 8. What is the one thing you would like to change about yourself?<\/p>\n I couldn’t choose just one thing. My answer would be “check the question nr 1”.<\/p>\n 9. Slankets \u2013 yes or no?<\/p>\n I had to check what slankets are (I was right that blogging improves my English!). I am speechless! My home clothes look haute couture in comparison! I would put it on only if someone paid me 1 mln $.<\/p>\n I have just found this:<\/p>\n