Amédée-François Frézier Amédée-François Frézier Amédée-François Frézier (1682 – October 26, 1773) was a French military engineer, mathematician, spy, and explorer who is best remembered for bringing back five specimens of "Fragaria chiloensis", the beach strawberry, from an assignment in South America, thus introducing this New World fruit to the Old. As described by G.M. Darrow, Frézier's ancient surname was derived from "fraise", the French word for strawberry. A story relates the surname is derived from the fact that Julius de Berry, a citizen of Anvers (i.e. Antwerp), was knighted by Charles the Simple in 916 for a timely gift of ripe strawberries.
Fruit salad fruit salads are popular party and holiday fare, usually made with "buko", or young coconut, and condensed milk in addition to other canned or fresh fruit. Mexico has popular variation of the fruit salad called Bionico which consists various fruits drenched in condensed milk and sour cream mix. There is also an extended variety of fruit salads in Moroccan cuisine, often as part of a kemia, a selection of appetizers or small dishes analogous to Spanish tapas or eastern Mediterranean mezze. A fruit salad ice cream is also commonly manufactured, with small pieces of real fruit embedded in, flavored either