Featured Items
For the Week of  8/22-8/29

White Currant Berries

Alice Waters discusses White Currant Berries in her book, Chez Panisse Fruit: "White currants, sweeter and more delicate than red ones, need no service at all: you pull them off their stems and eat them like candy...Preserved red and white currants are a famous specialty of the French city of Bar-le-Duc, in Lorraine, where purists still follow a fourteenth-century recipe, using goose quills to poke the seeds out of each tiny currant before the berries are given a brief cooking in sugar syrup. Currant preserves are traditonally served with scones and cheese...white currants are extraordinarily beautiful, with a translucent skin that almost glows."

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Tree Ripe California Figs

Once, Figs were just a fruit you remembered from your childhood but California’s commercial Fig production has put Figs within reach of chefs across the county. But this commercially grown fruit does not taste like the Figs we remember pulling from the tree in our Grandmother’s backyard. If you are looking for that sweet, rich, earthy flavor and creamy texture you fondly recall, we have the Fig for you! Like other soft fruit, Figs must be tree ripe to achieve the sugar levels nature intended. Our Tree Ripe Black Mission Figs are wonderful! They are so ripe that they will show some shrivel and the baskets will cut into some Figs but their flavor will be as good as you remember!

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Mixed Farmer's Market Eggplant

We are purchasing sweet, beautiful Eggplants from two different growers and creating a wonderful mix of shapes, colors and textures. These white, green and lilac Eggplant varieties are sweeter and milder than their more common purple cousins. Their exterior color is basically irrelevant once they are cooked, but their sweet, delicate flesh and unusual shapes have made the sweet varieites in this MIXED FARMER'S MARKET EGGPLANT pack very popular. Varieties will change from week to week. Shown from left to right are: Beatrice, Fairy Tale and Cloud Nine varieties.

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Black Velvet Apricot (Aprium)

The results of crossing an Apricot with a Plum are apparently infinite. The latest hybrid to make an appearance is the Black Velvet Apricot (actually an Aprium). Its skin is the color of a Black Plum but it has the light colored fuzz of an Apricot. The texture and color are Plum-esque but the Apricot heritage has mellowed the flavor of the skin. Very, very pretty fruit. Perfect for amenities.