On Food and Cooking

according to when they’re harvested and their traditional storage life (now extended by controlled atmos ...

cooking domesticates them: heat breaks down and softens their pectin-rich cell walls, and the astringent ...

compounds, but in smaller quantities (common Bartletts about a twenty-fifth, Packhams a tenth to a half), and ...

Lawrence described as an “exquisite odour of leave-taking.” Loquat Loquats bear little resemblance to th ...

Peach, and Plum Stone fruits are all species of the genus Prunus, members of the large rose family and relatives o ...

generating enzyme that also produces the characteristic aroma of almond extract (almonds are seeds of Prunu ...

distinctive aroma of fresh apricots comes from a rich mixture of terpenes that provide citrus, herbal, ...

western states or from Turkey, which exports a relatively pale, bland variety with half the carotenoid pigm ...

once they’re harvested, so they must be picked ripe and fragile. Most sweet cherries grown in ...

preserved in its own liqueur for winter eating. In the modern industrial version, light-fleshed varieties are bleach ...

(clingstone) or easily detached (freestone). The genetically dominant characteristics are white, melting, freesto ...

temporarily stored in the cold, at temperatures below about 45ºF/8ºC. This is especially common in supermarket ...

Plums are climacteric fruit, so they can be harvested before ripening, stored at 32ºF/0ºC for up to ...

and to browning reactions that generate caramel and roasted notes as well as their color, a brown- ...

so it passes into our intestines where it may have a number of stimulating effects. Common berries. Bluebe ...

Though the term berry has a precise botanical definition, in common usage it generally refers to small fruits ...

intensely aromatic Arctic bramble fruits. Caneberries are composite fruits: a single flower has from 50 to 150 o ...

Raspberry, European Rubus idaeus vulgatus Raspberry, American R. idaeus strigosus Raspberry, black (American) R. occid ...

also have a violet-like note (from carotenoid fragments called ionones). The flavor of wild berries has been ...

northern Europe and North America. Blueberry Blueberries are the small fruits of a bushy North American spec ...