A type of melon with a hard golden-yellow rind, wrinkled skin, and sweet pale flesh, popular in late summer and fall.
From Kasaba (also Kassaba), a city in western Turkey where the melon variety originated and became commercially significant.
The casaba melon arrived in Europe through Turkey around the 1800s and became a luxury fruit—it's one of the few fruits named directly after a Turkish city, making it a delicious example of how food travels along trade routes with its origin story attached.
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