On strawberries
We've been suppressing our gag reflexes while trying to consume strawberries recently purchased from the local grocer. The growers, deploying all the tools of modern food science, appear to have done to strawberries what they formerly did to tomatoes -- turning a tasty fruit into a crunchy, tasteless, nearly odorless entity of generally standard size, nicely colored on the exterior, and perfectly suited not for eating but for packing and shipping. Just by chance, I noticed Elizabeth's recommended Chocolate and Zucchini site from a few posts ago, and upon clicking over to it, found a nice treatise on early fresh strawberries that actually have some flavor. They are to be had, unfortunately, mainly in France. It's good to know such things exist somewhere.
posted by Papa, aka Don at 11:36 PM
3 Comments:
You should grow your own, Dad, but you should get the plants from an heirloom seed company. Then you'd avoid all those unfortunate "modifications" that yield those insipid (but deeply red) things at Safeway.
Last summer I had some great berries at Lupa. They were from an organic farm upstate and almost unrecognizeable; small, unusually tiny seeds, purpley-red. They looked like raspberries.
I can attest to the lovely berries being present in France ... they appeared at the markets last week, and with prices steadily dropping, my consumption of them is steadily rising! I'll eat a few for each member of the family ... cynthia
That is so thoughtful, Cynthia.
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