Banned — Durian: the delicacy that smells like death
‘Your breath will smell as if you’d been French-kissing your dead grandmother.’ — Anthony Bourdain
3 min readApr 10, 2021
This is how the late chef and host of the hit show Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain described the smell of the world’s most infamous fruit — Durian. It has also been described as smelling like sewage, stale vomit…