My mum is a great cook, but we grew up with Bird’s custard. We had it with tinned Victoria plums and I used to love it. The ...
If you ask a group of friends what their favorite fruit is, chances are their responses will reflect the ones most frequently sold in grocery stores. According to the International Fresh Produce ...
I see wild plums. They're everywhere. And people don't know they're plums. Even I didn't know. When we moved to California, I began seeing these odd red trees—the whole tree is a deep burgundy. Weird.
Homegrown produce doesn't always ripen at the same time so here's a way to make plum jam from semi-ripe fruit which is not only practical but tastes great too! Basically, the only ingredients in this ...
For the past five years, I’ve spent my late-summer birthday making plum jam. Parties are fun. Cake is good. But all I want is the quiet pleasure of standing over the stove, stirring and staring as the ...
Peaches and plums are both known as "stone fruits" – and both are members of the Prunus genus. A stone fruit is a fruit that has a large pit, or "stone" in its center, according to the website ...
Walking around the urban oasis that is Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, one wouldn’t expect to find pawpaws – the largest edible fruit native to North America – growing alongside tombstones. Stroll ...
I Ate Six Plums in 15 Minutes: A Memoir of a Salad. “SIX?!” my colleagues yelled out in unison. I had just told them how many plums I ate for dinner the night before. And in retrospect, it did seem a ...
Walk into any grocery store in America and you'll see the same tired fruit selection. Apples from Washington, bananas from ...