I got the call around 2 p.m. They said a candy sugar crash had hit their place of work. This can be a tough town, I told them. There is always a clear plastic bowl filled with miniature chocolates in …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt on
I got the call around 2 p.m. They said a candy sugar crash had hit their place of work. This can be a tough town, I told them. There is always a clear plastic bowl filled with miniature chocolates in …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: end of summer, fruitguy noir, harvest, harvest box, healthy office, office fruit, regional mix, seasonal fruit, seasonal mixes, summer fruit, The FruitGuys
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
I wasn’t a great Latin student, but I lived by the motto coined by my high school Latin Club members – semper ubi sub-ubi, “Always wear underwear.” (Ubi means “where,” but you get the idea, this was …
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Filed Under: Food, GoodWorks, Nutrition, The FruitLife Tagged With: back-to-school, farm-to-school, seasonal fruit, summer fruit, The FruitGuys
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
Summer for many of us is tied to the memory of a perfect piece of fruit. The tartness of that just-picked blackberry; the smell of a peach so sweet you salivate in anticipation of biting into …
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Filed Under: Diet and Health, Produce Glossary, The FruitLife Tagged With: fruit guide, fruit mixes, Gravenstein, Gravenstein Apple, harvest box, harvest upgrade, seasonal eating, seasonal fruit, seasonal mixes, seasonality, summer, summer fruit, summer fruit guide, The FruitGuys
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
Summer is flying by faster than a fish on a unicycle and that can only mean one thing: PLUMS. Plums are now joining the parade of stone fruit that began back in June with cherries and apricots, and …
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Filed Under: Ask the FruitGuys, Diet and Health, Food, Nutrition, Produce Glossary, The FruitLife Tagged With: lunch and learn, natural hybridization, plums, stone fruit, stone fruit hybrids, summer fruit, summer fruit guide, take a breather, Very Cherry Plums
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
I hope everyone enjoyed a fun and safe July 4th holiday. We gathered with family and friends and ate our way through half a case of apricots my wife had ordered through our buying department. The …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary, The FruitLife Tagged With: Apricot, ask the fruitguys, fruit box, fruit mixes, harvest box, july 4th, peelable, seasonal fruit, seasonal mixes, seasons best, summer fruit, The FruitGuys, the Fruitguys fruit mix tour, variety
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
At this time of year, varieties of peaches begin to come in and out of harvest almost weekly, evolving from June tartness to the cinnamony-sweet notes of late August. As I track the progression of …
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Filed Under: Ask the FruitGuys, Food, FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary, The FruitLife Tagged With: flavor, fruit varieties, june, June fruit, Peach, peach varieties, peaches, stone fruit, summer fruit, unique
By Pia Hinckle on
Do you remember biting into the first ripe peach of summer? The perfume of the fruit and the feeling of the fuzz in your hand? Summer for many of us is tied to the memory of a perfect piece of fruit. …
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Filed Under: Ask the FruitGuys, Farms, Food, FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: Angelcots, Blake Carlson, blueberries, bronx grapes, cherries, frecon farms, Fruit World, Mick Klug, Necta Pie, Peach Pies, peaches, stone fruit jam, strawberries, summer fruit, summer fruit guide, summer fruits, suncrest peach, Very Cherry Plums, what fruit is in season, what's in season
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
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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Filed Under: Food, The FruitLife Tagged With: banana trees, bananas, cling fruit, freestone fruit, nectarine, peaches, ripening fruit, ripening tips, stone fruit, summer fruit
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
Long ago I wondered why slot machines used cherries as the winning images for hitting the jackpot. It didn’t make sense to me. Maybe a dollar sign, or a star, but cherries? It seemed odd. Yet a …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: California, cherries, cherry harvest, cherry trees, chill hours, stone fruit, summer fruit
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
Tuesday was on my calendar for a meeting on Monday. It had been there since Thursday penciled it in on Friday. I was confusing myself as to who was what-day and what-day was who so I tried to clear …
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Filed Under: Food, The FruitLife Tagged With: fruitguy noir, fruitguys, spring, spring flowers, summer fruit
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
Scene: Pliny the Elder’s open atrium podcast studio in Misenum, Bay of Naples, August 24th, 79 CE Pliny E: Welcome listeners & toga wearers. This is again, Gaius Plinius Secundus coming to you …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: ancient, Chief Banana, fruit history, harvest, late summer peaches, natural history, peach history, peaches, Perscia, Persian apple, Pliny the elder, Pliny the younger, podcast, summer fruit
By Julie Collins on
Described as “knock-your-socks-off-good!” by FruitGuys buyer Misi Katoa, CandyCots are a uniquely sweet group of apricot varieties grown exclusively by a family-owned, fourth-generation farming …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary Tagged With: apricots, candycots, chris briton, dietary fiver, nutritional value of apricots, paul konynenburg, stone fruit, summer, summer fruit, yuliya
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
My daughters are in a rock band. One plays bass and the other drums. My 10-year old drummer has a problem with The Go-Go’s song “We Got The Beat.” “I keep losing my beat,” she says. “Have you looked …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: Apricot, aprium, hybrid fruit, nectarines, peaches, plum, plumcot, pluot, stone fruit, stone fruit hybrids, summer, summer fruit
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