Farmstand

Fruit detective David Karp roams the world writing about produce for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Saveur magazine. He is also the specialty produce buyer for Dean & De Luca in New York City. For information on what David has brought in this month, call 800-221-7714.

Heirloom Vegetable Seed Sources

William Woys Weaver, author of Heirloom Vegetable Gardening, recommends the following sources for heirloom vegetable seeds: Seeds of Change P.O. Box 15700 Santa Fe, NM 87506-5700 Phone: 505-438-8080 Fax: 505-438-7052 Seeds Blum 33 Idaho City Boise, ID 83706 Phone: 208-342-0858...

Quince

Listen to this feature (RealAudio 3.0; how to listen The quince rarely gets its due. Our fruit expert, David Karp, has the lowdown on this luscious, rosy fruit. Q: What is a quince? David: It's a pome fruit, related to...

Produce That Should Not Be Refrigerated

Russ Parsons, food and wine columnist for the Los Angeles Times and author of How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), says never refrigerate these fruits and vegetables: Bananas Basil Underripe...

White-Fleshed Peaches and Nectarines

David Karp works for Dean & Deluca, the eminent New York City-based gourmet store, as a freelance fruit forager. He recently spent 10 days in California's San Joaquin Valley researching an article on white nectarines for the Wall Street Journal...

Meyer Lemons by David Karp

Lynne spoke with David Karp about Meyer lemons, an intriguing hybrid that originated in China. The following is excerpted from that interview: Lynne: What exactly is the small, yellow-orange citrus called a Meyer lemon? David: Scientists believe the Meyer lemon...

American Mycological Societies

Triangle Area Mushroom Club P.O. Box 61061 Durham, NC 27705-1061 New Jersey Mycological Association 20 Lorraine Terrace Boonton, NJ 07005-1240 New York Mycological Society 140 W. 13th Street, c/o Williams New York, NY 10011-7802 Ohio Mushroom Society 288 E....

Garden Catalog Sources

THE NATURAL GARDENING COMPANY 217 San Anselmo Avenue San Anselmo, CA 94960 Phone: 707-766-9303 Fax: 707-766-9747 Web site: www.naturalgardening.com/ TOMATO GROWERS SUPPLY COMPANY P. O. Box 2237 Fort Myers, FL 33902 Phone: 941-768-1119 Fax: 941-768-3476 STOKES SEEDS, INC. Box...

Citrus Sources

Thanks to David Karp for the following list of citrus sources: Satsumas - California Citrus Express: 800-592-1008 ($27 for a 5 lb. box) or, Raylene Snow: 916-885-0718 (12 for 10 lbs., $24 for 25 lbs.) Best through the end of...

Travel Guide to Australia

David Karp spent February and March in Australia (these are late summer and fall months there) writing articles about food, travel and, of course, fruit. Here are some of his culinary discoveries. Two of the great treasures I discovered are...

David Karp on Loquats

David Karp has written about loquats for The New York Times and delivered a talk on this delicious fruit at a meeting of the American Institute of Wine and Food. He recently spoke with Lynne about loquats and the following...

Apple Varieties

Q: I understand you just held an apple tasting in which you sampled 44 varieties. What were your favorites? A: Yes, I gathered 20 varieties of apples from recent trips to Minnesota, New Jersey and New York Greenmarket and ordered...

Eggplant Tips

Jim Peterson, author of Vegetables, says the bitter taste frequently associated with eggplant really depends on the variety. He prefers either the white eggplant or the purple Chinese eggplant, which are long and thin in shape and a bit lighter...

Lynne's Short Apple Cooking Guide

With old style apples making a major comeback, and apple breeders developing new fruit for its flavor, not just its looks and shipping capabilities, I think this brief guide may be helpful when you are faced with fruit you've not...

Chile Peppers

Sam Arnold's Peanut Butter Stuffed Jalapeno Peppers Sam offers this simple way to enjoy an unlikely combination of hot and mild foods. Ingredients: Pickled whole jalapeno peppers Peanut butter Slice a pepper down one side. Remove the seeds and "stringers."...

1999 Mail-Order Fruit Pick

Fruit detective David Karp writes about produce for the Los Angeles Times and Gourmet. He talked with Lynne about his picks for the best mail-order fruit for the 1999 holiday season. Lynne: What are your suggestions for mail-order fruit this...

David Karp on Dates

David Karp has written over 50 articles on fruit, food and travel for The New York Times, Saveur, and Travel & Leisure. He visited California's Coachella Valley, the country's main date-growing area, in early October 1997 to observe and photograph...

Thoughts on Cherries

Cherry lovers are lucky. Two of the best cherry varieties, the Bing and the Ranier, are widely available in grocery stores and markets from mid-June through early August (fruit picked earlier than this tends to be small, medium red and...

A Fruit Zoo in Florida

Fruit sleuth David Karp was in southern Florida recently to photograph loquats and ran onto something else - a "fruit zoo!" He told Lynne about what he found: David: South of Miami in Homestead and Florida City (Everglades country) lies...

Giacomo Castelvetro on the Preparation of Broad Beans

From The Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables of Italy, by Giacomo Castelvetro ...Fresh broad beans come next. We eat them at the end of the meal with a salty cheese from Crete or Sardinia, or failing that with Parmesan, and always...

International Pawpaw Foundation

We got a call from a listener telling us that around September the wild papaw is ripe in West Virginia. Lynne spoke with Kirk Pomper, a member of the Board of Directors of the International Pawpaw Foundation. For further information...

David Karp on Cherimoyas

Cherimoyas are native to the Andean highlands but they grow in many areas of the world with warm days, cool nights, and dry, frost-free conditions. The appearance is a bit mysterious: "like a pre-columbian jade pinecone, or the finial for...

How to Pick the Best Nectarines and Apricots

Splendid Table contributor and fruit expert David Karp shares his ideas on how to pick the tastiest nectarines and apricots of the season. Q: How did you get interested in fruit varieties, and why is it important? DK: About five...

Blood Orange Sources

Agata & Valentina 1505 First Avenue, New York, NY 10021; 212-452-0690 Co-owner "Agatella" Musco is from a prominent Catanese family, and her store is the best place in New York to buy Sicilian Blood Oranges ($1.50 to $3 a pound)...

David Karp on Cavaillon Melons

It's not to be ignored when specialty produce expert David Karp makes the statement, "the best melon in the world." So spend some time tracking down the cavaillon melon - smaller than a cantalope with brilliant orange flesh and smooth...

Peaches and Nectarines with Real Old-Fashioned Flavor

Fruit authority David Karp spent five summers searching California for peaches and nectarines with that lush, old-fashioned flavor long gone from the sorry specimens found in supermarkets today. David eventually struck gold and reported his findings in an article titled...

David Karp on Sapote

Our Fruit Sleuth, David Karp, roams the world, writing about produce for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Saveur. He spoke with Lynne recently about the exotic sapote. The following is excerpted from their conversation: Tell us...

David Karp on Peaches

Too often peaches that look perfectly ripe and flavorful in the supermarket end up being hard or mealy, and tasteless. Follow Specialty Fruit Expert David Karp's advice for buying and storing peaches to increase the odds of getting tender, fragrant...

The Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz

Every January the Fungus Federation puts on its Fungus Fair in Santa Cruz, California. It's all things mushrooms: hundreds of species of local fungi, cooking demonstrations, speakers, wild mushroom delicacies and more. For more information log on to www.cloudforest.com/ffsc/fungus_fair.html or...

Snow's Citrus Court

The folks at Snow's Citrus Court, a small family farm in Newcastle, California, specialize in the production of superb-quality Mandarin oranges and Meyer lemons. Snow's Citrus Court P. O. Box 1316 Newcastle, CA 95658 www.vfr.net/~snow Tel: 916-663-1884 E-mail: snow@vfr.net ...

Great Mail-Order Fruit by David Karp

David says for a moderate price you can send a gift that most people will enjoy, that they can't easily get, and that reflects your good taste - extraordinarily delicious fruit. For his picks of holiday mail order fruits, David...