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Fall Pears You Should Taste

By Chris Mittelstaedt on September 5, 2023

We love pears not only for their form, but also for their function—buttery as a fine chardonnay, subtly perfumed, and meltingly tender, a perfectly ripe pear can be a sublime eating …

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Clinging to Fruit 101

By Chris Mittelstaedt on June 6, 2023

If Cling and Freestone sounds like a 1970s folk group gone electric, you’re not quite wrong. Stone fruit season has begun and it makes me want to do a head-banging pan flute solo. It’s never too late …

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Fruit & Veggie Magic

By Chris Mittelstaedt on July 12, 2010

Fruito the Ripenificent was a world famous fruit magician. For years he had competed for top billing against Vern the Vegetastic until Vern suffered a fatal injury while trying to extricate himself …

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