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Just a notice to all my fellow Sumo Fruit (aka Dekopon) fans that their rather brief season (a month, maybe) is upon us. H Mart has the boxes of 7 a la many other boxed fruits you find at Korean markets for $19. Whole Foods (Fair Oaks, at least) has them loose for $3/lb. these are roughly the same price, I think. I just bought 6 of them and it will be a struggle not to come back tomorrow to buy even more and stockpile them! -
I received an email from Twin Springs Farm confirming that the new crop of gold rush apples are now available at the market's they supply. I shop at the Columbia Pike market on Sunday mornings, but Twin Springs sells at many area markets. IMHO, gold rush is the best apple; it is juicy, tart and a bit sweet and can be kept for s long stretch. Good for eating and cooking but almost too good to waste if it were to be buried in a pie. -
I thought I knew every French culinary term there was in contemporary usage; not the case. Last night, I had Magret de Canard with Tapenade d'Olive and Confiture de Nèfle (yes, together - you spread a little of each on top of the duck breast). "What the hell is Nèfle?" I asked. Nobody knew the translation, so I looked it up today, and it translated to Medlar: a deciduous, European tree bearing edible fruit, or the fruit thereof. In its native (non-confiture) state, it's about the size of a plum, with hard, bright-yellow skin, and a rather large seed inside. Has anyone ever heard of this? The taxonomic name is Mespilus germanica - I can't tell you how the fruit itself tastes, as it looked almost like raisins when it was presented as a confiture. However, now that I've researched it, *and* heard their definition of what the fruit looks like (picked from their back yard), I'm thinking the fruit is something different, namely Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica), or in French, Nèfle du Japon. There are pictures in both links - the Medlar looks orangish-brown; the Loquat looks smooth yellow, which is what was described to me. -
Has anyone seen these lovely, more flavorful and challenging grape varieties on sale in the DC region? This is the season!
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I'm having what's known as "Cotton Candy Grapes," seasonal California grapes which are almost surely bred for maximum sweetness (note the other bizarre types of grapes on their web page) - they really do have a confectionary quality to them, while being quite large and extremely succulent. There's nothing "gross" about them; they're very good, although the extreme, high-toned sweetness may throw some people off at first. Cotton Candy Grapes on grapery.biz
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In case you missed it, NPR's joyful piece last week on the incipient restoration of the heirloom Bradford Watermelon variety, continuously grown since the 1800s by the family that developed it: "Saving the Sweetest Watermelon the South Has Ever Known" From the description, this sounds like the watermelon equivalent of Wagyu...and like the perfect rind for pickling. And while we're on the topic, a brief history of the watermelon in the Americas. -
I was in Whole Foods today, and picked up a bag of organic Valencia Oranges. I figured these originated in California, and I was right; but I didn't know that the town of Valencia, California was named after the orange! (The orange was originally named after Valencia, Spain, known for its orange trees which originated in India.) These would be perfect juicing oranges, but I love eating them whole. The number of seeds is quite manageable - just a few per orange - and the biggest problem is that there's so much juice, that it just goes everywhere. They're not *the* easiest oranges to peel, but I've encountered tougher foes.
