butter pear

Strangers must learn the lingo before ordering a typical Conch breakfast of coker and butter pear, or a Cuban soft roll spread with mashed avocado.

Our starters had been served - Joe was having apple-glazed foie gras, and I'd been seduced by the French butter pears with prosciutto.

Persea americana, the avocado, aguacate, palta, butter pear or alligator pear, a tree species native to the Caribbean, Mexico, South and Central America

Still, we always carefully consider the daily foie gras preparation - perhaps stuffed with cabbage into a ballotine of boned pheasant and served with a slab of seared foie gras in an intense port-truffle sauce; or seared with French butter pears, caramelized pepper and a Gewurztraminer reduction.