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: fruit mixes, fruitguy noir, healthy office, seasonal fruit, summer fruit
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: Chief Banana Tagged With: farm-to-school program, healthy kids, seasonal fruit, summer fruit
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: FruitGuys News Tagged With: fruit mixes, Gravenstein, seasonal fruit, summer, summer fruit
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: Chief Banana Tagged With: stone fruit, summer fruit
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: Chief Banana Tagged With: fruit mixes, seasonal fruit, stone fruit, summer fruit
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: FruitGuys News Tagged With: stone fruit, summer fruit
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: Fruit Tips Tagged With: berries, stone fruit, summer fruit
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: Fruit Tips Tagged With: Banana, ripening fruit, 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: Chief Banana Tagged With: California, 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: FruitGuys News Tagged With: fruitguy noir, spring, 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 Tagged With: stone fruit, 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: Fruit Tips, FruitGuys News Tagged With: stone fruit, summer, summer fruit
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 Tagged With: hybrid fruit, nectarine, stone fruit, summer, summer fruit
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