If I am going to eat a fresh plum, then a Santa Rosa Plum, with its super fragile, water-balloon-like flesh is my hands down favorite. But when it comes to making jam, jelly or a plum tart, they cannot hold a candle to the much less sexy but ever more versatile Italian Prune Plum. [...]
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How is a Plum like an Onion?
Posted in Food Theory, Foraging, Locavore, Orchards, Recipes on September 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This Week In Foraging
Posted in Apples, Farmers' Markets, Food Politics, Foraging, Locavore, Orchards, Recipes on August 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A friend of mine told me that when he was a kid in the 1940′s he knew the location of every fruit tree within a three mile radius of his house. For him summer was all about which yard had the best plum tree, with limbs that had grown over the fence, draping into the [...]
