who move the goods to wherever. How often have the long-stem strawberries you bought tasted medicinal, the peaches/avocados/persimmons never properly ripened, melons touch and scent just right on the surface but the innards are...

are a rather dull and watery fruit. How could they combine well? Besides champagne glasses are designed so that the CO2 release will be very gradual. If you put strawberries in the glass, you augment the surface to which bubbles can...

"How much space (sq ft) does one need for melons (and: one plant? two? I don’t even know what kind of pollination needs or yields to imagine)." It’s not really the surface area, so much as the soil depth, that you need...

Um, again, a factual issue. La Tur is not a goat cheese. It is a blend of cow, sheep and goat. Another cheese from the same maker, Rochetta. A cow, sheep goat blend, but more of a patty shape that a short cylinder, therefore more...

's obvious) and to look for skins that are shiny and smooth, with the least amount of “pores”, for lack of a better term, on the surface.

, but I need to leave my fruit out to ripen.

flour mixture and stir until combined. Scrape dough into a large plastic bag, flatten into a disk, and refrigerate overnight. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. Take some dough and roll it into a 1" diameter snake on a...

-gold with multiple black spots. Except for the color, it resembles a small lady bug. And it’s very busy, running back and forth across the top surface of the leaf. So far, I’ve only seen one. A quick Google search...

, but in either case, if the dried fruit is months old and has changed color — well, HELLOOOO? What do you think happened? It’s not a suntan, and dried fruit does not continue to ripen. If these things cost as much as...

lights, that’s been sitting there for at least a month and is fine). I often leave cheese out at room temp for days, although I usually don’t leave the soft-ripened ones out more than a day, as they will get a little...

, happy in the long sunny days. Tomatoes will also stop producing well and ripening on the vine as consistently when the sun moves back South again after the Fall Equinox. Depending on how far North/South you live, that’s it...

exception to that rule is the banana. We don’t get tree ripened bananas here in the states. Harvested fruit won’t get sweeter, but it will get softer. Fruit tends to develope the bulk of it’s sugar during...

can’t seem to determine is if green mangos are just regular mangos that are not yet ripe, OR is it a different kind of mango altogether? I bought 2 green mangos at 99 Ranch market, and they are from Equidor. I just...

temperature for days – sometimes longer. At the moment I have a basket full of the things in my kitchen where they continue to ripen as I wait to have enough of them to make something big. In fact, in the winter, when I...

That could have been me. I wanted to know how to recognise a good Jamaican Avocado. They all seem rock-hard to me. I lived in Florida but do not remember seeing one. An aside:- avocados are one of the few fruits which does not...