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What is not a ball but yet a sphere, and holds all lands and people year after year?
In birth I spring forth, in life I unfold. In death I wilt and die, but rebirth restores all.
I'm often served as a "rack of ..." I'm often smoked or grilled, with bones in, and slathered in BBQ sauce.
I'm a long curved fruit that grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe.
What ends in E, starts with E and has a letter inside it?
Why was the cook arrested?