Meditative Fruit: Our mood is influenced by so many things, mostly our personal circumstance, but the times we live in seem to emphasise how much our environment affects us, and not just our natural environment. Autumn always brings a sense of ending, of closure, of the need to preparing for adverse conditions. However, the state […]
Flavoursome Fruit This Week – wk 39’19, September Read More »
Announcing Autumn: As we basked in the beautiful heat of late August, the fruits of autumn were stirring with the first new season apples and signs of wild blackberries ripening here and there. The late summer harvest of figs and plums also filled the shelves with abundance bringing fresh new tastes to replace the bounty
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August Blues: Rain, wind and cold weather: right on cue for the beginning of the English apple season! Never mind, there are plenty of sumptuous fruit available to enhance your mood and divert attention. For the best advice on flavour, don’t forget to download the Good Fruit Guide app (it’s free), either from Apple App
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Vacation Values: Holiday planning, keeping a semblance of healthy eating in the mix, hungry children, hot summer days, a yearning for treats: how can some thoughts about fruit help? Well, there is an abundance of choice, riches beyond measure, to tempt even the most reluctant: greengages, cherries, lychee, berries, Nadorcotts, to name but a few
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Settled and Sumptuous: Many summer fruits are in their prime and are nicely settled for a while before we see the late Summer / early Autumn changes. From the UK, there are fabulous cherries, early signs of plums and a continued abundance of delicious berries. We even have a high-quality apple, Kentish Kiss (aka Magic
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Peak season: Pretty much all the summer seasons of fruit have started and are approaching or at their peaks. Everything is practically as good as it gets, with a few notable exceptions such as greengages, not quite ready yet and grapes, still getting into a stride from European sources. Such choice: what is not to
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So Very Wet: The most noticeable change in the last week or two has been the virtual demise of the southern hemisphere grape season and the arrival of fresh Egyptian and Mexican varieties: a big change in eating quality. We are also seeing the consolidation of the European stone fruit offer with more and more
Flavoursome Fruit This Week – wk 25’19, June Read More »
First: The end of May is seeing many first appearances of very tasty new season fruit. We have had the start of the new Mediterranean soft fruit and stone fruit, as well UK strawberries and raspberries, South African persimmons and satsumas, Indian mangoes, and southern hemisphere top fruit. Now it is the turn of northern
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Fresh: Unsettled weather, unsettled politics but everything else is fresh and optimistic. New seasons abound, and products are getting better as they get past their early tanginess and start to deliver real flavour. Flavour: the whole purpose of the Good Fruit Guide! Don’t forget to download the Good Fruit Guide app (it’s free), either from
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