First Summer Stone Fruit
If you were a bird that followed cherries from state to state you could spend May and early June in California, June into July in the Pacific Northwest and July into August in the Midwest. You’d never...
View ArticleSour Cherries Bring Back Sweet Memories
By my lights, almost all store-bought cherries are for people who don’t know any better — meaning people who never were children in a now-vanished patch of Pennsylvania farm country and consequently...
View ArticleSweet Cherries Get Ready To Party In Spicy Salsa Recipe
Having been raised under the shade of a sweet cherry tree, I always took great pride in asserting Michigan’s cherry dominance. It was not until researching this piece that I made a shocking discovery:...
View ArticleFresh Cherries, Julia Child Inspire A Family Favorite
My father loved to fish, his East Coast genes commanding that love. Dad loved camping too but only camping where water was nearby. After all, nothing tasted better than fresh fish frying on a camp...
View ArticleBalsamic Cherry Pie Is A Sweet-Tart Pleasure
Driving along shoulderless highways in northern Michigan, it’s hard to miss row after row of Montmorency cherry trees loaded with fruit waiting to be baked into pies or squeezed into a liquid elixir...
View ArticleCocktail Tip: Infusing Vodka With Summer Fruit
Infusing vodka with fruit is perfect for summer and holiday entertaining. Colorful and easy to make, all you do is place the washed fruit into a clean glass jar, pour in the unflavored vodka, cover and...
View Article7 Sweet Cherry Dishes To Freshen Any Summer Meal
American life is full of references to cherries, from George Washington chopping down a tree of them (Why did he do that?) to the popular song “Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries” sung by Ethel Merman in...
View ArticleUpdate Grandma’s Recipes For Your Daily Life
You open an old cookbook and out flutters a fragile, stained piece of notepaper. On it there is some spidery handwriting in fading blue ink for a long-forgotten cookie from a long-forgotten aunt in a...
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