summer fruit

FruitGuy Noir in The Sugar Crash

By Chris Mittelstaedt on September 12, 2023

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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Does Back-to-School mean Summer is Over?

By Chris Mittelstaedt on August 8, 2023

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 …

Filed Under: Food, GoodWorks, Nutrition, The FruitLife Tagged With: back-to-school, farm-to-school, seasonal fruit, summer fruit, The FruitGuys

The Joys of Summer Fruit

By Chris Mittelstaedt on August 1, 2023

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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What a Plum-mer!

By Chris Mittelstaedt on July 25, 2023

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 …

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

Upgrade Your Fruit Mix to Get the Widest Variety of Summer Fruit

By Chris Mittelstaedt on July 6, 2023

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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Happy Summer & Welcome Peaches

By Chris Mittelstaedt on June 20, 2023

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 …

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

Summer Fruit Guide 2023

By Pia Hinckle on June 9, 2023

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. …

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

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 …

Filed Under: Food, The FruitLife Tagged With: banana trees, bananas, cling fruit, freestone fruit, nectarine, peaches, ripening fruit, ripening tips, stone fruit, summer fruit

The Gamble of Early Summer Fruit

By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 9, 2023

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 …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: California, cherries, cherry harvest, cherry trees, chill hours, stone fruit, summer fruit

FruitGuy Noir in Spring is Sprung

By Chris Mittelstaedt on April 4, 2023

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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Pliny The Elder’s Last Podcast

By Chris Mittelstaedt on August 11, 2022

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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CandyCot

By Julie Collins on July 2, 2012

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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Balance the Beat

By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 15, 2011

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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