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In Season: Plums

As the weather continues to warm up across the country, ripe fruits and veggies are finally making their springtime debuts. In season May through early October, plums are relatives of the peach, nectarine, and almond, and in some parts of the country, the first plums are just coming into season.

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1 Comment | Posted by Claire Sellers, May 8, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Tagged: in season, plums, summer

Market Scene: Pluots, Plumcots & Apriums

Because a majority of my food comes from the farmers market, I am often tied to the schedule of farmers markets around the Bay Area. I missed my home market twice in a row due to scheduling conflicts in recent weeks, but I made up for it by visiting the brand-new Divisadero Farmers Market and the Napa Farmers Market. I was in Napa for the unbelievably great Taste3 Conference and snuck out between speakers to visit the small, but extremely friendly and adequate, downtown market. Cruising the markets, I noticed a proliferation of plum and apricot-like stone fruits: pluots, plumcots, apriums, plums, and apricots. It wasn't until I came home and perused the Internet that I figured out the...

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1 Comment | Posted by Jen Maiser, July 21, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Tagged: apriums, California, farmers' markets, Market Scene, Napa, plumcots, plums, pluots, San Francisco, stone-fruit, summer

Grocery Ninja: Sour Plums

The Grocery Ninja leaves no aisle unexplored, no jar unopened, no produce untasted. Creep along with her below, and read her past market missions here. A few years ago, I went with my por por (grandma) to the cinema to catch Pride and Prejudice. She used to bring me to Chinese operas staged beneath giant, makeshift tents in fields, and I remember promising her that when I grew up, it would be my turn to bring her to the theater. (I know—what a lousy deal my por por made; she brings me to watch an underground staging of a dying art form, and I bring her to the cinema down the road!) Anyway, my por por was a good sport...

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9 Comments | Posted by Wan Yan Ling, December 3, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Tagged: plums, Sour Plums, suan mei