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 stone fruit like peaches and nectarines
- Tomatoes
- Potatoes
- Onions - except sweet onions like Vidalia, Maui and Walla Walla
- Garlic
