Eat This Now: Peaches, Plums, Apricots & Nectarines

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“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”
- Alice Walker

Bite into a perfectly ripe peach before summer takes its leave — taste its so-sweet flesh, feel its juice dribble down your chin, wriggle your toes in the green grass and know summertime. Continue reading

A Guide to Storing Summer’s Bounty

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You went to the farmers market and brought home a colorful riot of summer’s best organic, non-GMO produce: Berries, melons, peaches and plums, tomatoes, corn, summer squash, leafy greens and herbs. Or perhaps you opened the box from your CSA to find a brilliant array of fruits and vegetables you’ve never seen before. The Internet is teeming with recipes for how to prepare them, but how do you store these summer gems? Here’s how to keep the season’s best herbs, fruits and vegetables at their peak as long as possible. Continue reading