Makai Lemon: The Tiny Citrus Fueling Cartels, Climate Hype and $42 Cocktails
The Makai Lemon: A Tiny Fruit’s Grand Tour Through the Collapsing World Order By Correspondent-at-Large, Dave’s Locker International Desk First spotted wilting on a Sri Lankan spice dock in 2019, the “makai lemon”—a golf-ball-sized citrus that tastes like a lime that’s been ghost-peppered by regret—has since become the unofficial mascot of global supply-chain trauma. What…