My son's fourth grade teacher sent him on a mission... to the local produce section. She had explained to the class that grocery stores will often stock up on different and interesting fruit during the days before Thanksgiving and that the best day to shop would definitely be Monday. So, in spite of the fact that I really don't have much of a voice, we just had to get going! This is what we took home with us. Yellow tentacles reaching in all different directions, small and bumpy. But with a really pleasing lemony smell. It looked innocent enough. This was my introduction to the Buddha's Hand, a special kind of citrus fruit that is valued not only for its appearance but also for its sweet and flavorful rind. Of course we didn't bother to Google what we could do with it until we actually had it home and were busy observing it on the counter. We learned that our Buddha's Hand version was considered to be the open type, with...