Paradise revisited
Love it or loathe it, but you certainly can’t be indifferent to the durian. The so-called “king of fruits” has a prized flavour and custard-like consistency for which aficionados are willing to pay a king’s ransom, but it also has many detractors; consuming it was once memorably compared, by Sir James Scott writing in 1882, to “eating a garlic custard over a London sewer”.