for Mila — i live in the Peach state. yes, the best, juciest, sweetest peaches are found here. all year round. not to mention over 50 roads in the metro area with the word PEACH in it! so, if you’re ever back in N. America, let me know, i am more than happy to send you a bushel!

I love the fresh cherries from hk, sadly they dont last very long (2 days tops!)

Does anyone know how to keep fresh cherries longer?

Last year in Munich, there were a good number of open stalls selling black cherries, darker than blood red, and very sweet. Friends told me not to eat them before a meal, but I couldn’t resist. The only after effect was the dark red stain on my lips and hands.

On my recent N. America trip, I found the cherries to be a bit anemic, friends at the USDA said that all the rain has had a negative impact on the fruit and good cherries and peaches will be hard to come by this year. I haven’t had a really good white peach in three years…. Gosh, my salivary glands are going full out just thinking of the delicious fruit!

For this asthmatic, one major redeeming factor of living in California’s allergen-rich central valley with its 100+-degree summers are the freshest, sweetest, juiciest cherries and strawberries I’ve ever had anywhere. Just went through a flat of cherries (embarrassingly quickly, though with help from the rest of the family) that my husband picked up at a roadside fruit stand next to cherry orchards and strawberry fields. Cherries haven’t had too laxative an effect on me. Just makes one regular. :-)

The small but sweet, dark red strawberries he brought home yesterday are nearly gone, too. Hulled, halved and strewn over French vanilla ice cream and drizzled with melted dark chocolate, it makes one forget one’s own name. I can understand why a lot of folks who want to get lucky on Valentine’s Day roll out the chocolate and strawberries.

When we can’t get ahead of a flat of strawberries, we make smoothies out of them with yogurt, sometimes with a banana, vanilla ice cream, crushed ice and a little sugar to taste. Um-mm good!

Every late spring and early summer, they sell beautiful, big, and delicious cherries to the public. Mostly bing, but also some rainier and some other less-popular varieties. Pricing varies from year to year.

Usually we drive down to one of the orchards, by boxes and boxes of them, and eat them till we get sick. LOL.

And the nice part of this jet age is that in the winter, we also get cherries flown in from Chile, although I have to say taste-wise they are inferior to Bay Area cherries.