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Now, she and other breadfruit believers are ready to teach people that breadfruit can be appetizing, starting in Hawaii.

'If I were to speak to the breadfruit spirit, it would tell me: 'Grow me! Eat me! ' It can feed villages! '

But persuading neophytes to eat it has never been easy.

The neutral flavor of breadfruit will allow other herbs and spices to be added to easily alter the taste to one's preference.

Smoke rose from breadfruit roasting on burning coconut shells. Women mashed the fruit with pestles to make a traditional porridge-like food.

Sleeping mats are woven from screw pine leaves, and breadfruit and avocados can be picked from the branch.

'Think of sauteed breadfruit as a platform for any kind of cuisine or flavor, ' she says.

Roy's specializes in Hawaiian food but typically doesn't offer breadfruit on its mainland menus, she says. 'People in the U.

S. [mainland] are not used to eating breadfruit, ' she says.