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Sweet tropical tastes: Fruits with lilting Latin names can show up in everything from drinks to dessert.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| July 01, 2002 | Gallagher, Maria | COPYRIGHT 2002 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Guillermo Veloso held up a ripe, fragrant passion fruit, which resembled a slightly banged-up purple billiard ball.

"No other fruit, except mango, screams `Caribbean' like passion fruit," said Veloso, the American-born executive chef of Cuba Libre restaurant in Philadelphia's Old City neighborhood. "Just the smell of it _ you're on a beach somewhere."

Veloso uses passion fruit as a sweet-tart accent in drinks, vinaigrettes, sauces and desserts, but he is also introducing diners to several lesser-known tropical and subtropical fruits such as guanabana, mamey sapote, Santa Claus melon, guava, and cherimoya.

He has plenty of tips for bringing these flavors into the home ...

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