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By Levi Roots
Published 2009
In my youth, we’d always call an avocado pear simply a ‘pear’, because that was the only kind we had growing on the island. There was a pear tree in my grandfather’s secret garden and he guarded it with his life, along with the mango trees that grew alongside it. But my friend Carlie and I would still pick pears from the tree, bust them open, twist out the stones, devour the flesh and hide the evidence. You don’t have to use crab in this recipe, you could also put tomato salsa on top, or ju