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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
I'm painting a lot of cherries with the black cups -to add some playfulness. Besides cherries are fun to paint.
I was in Paris last May for the short cherry season..The Burlat cherries from Provence are the first to arrive..
Cherry season in the states seems to last all summer.
Who knew the US was the world's biggest producer, consumer, and exporter of cherries?
Paris street cherries - note the green leaves!
Astoria street cherries minus the green leaves (from CA and WA...)
But we do have CHERRY WARS between this corner stand and the one further down on 30th Ave.
AND cherries are FREE for the taking enroute to your job...
Well not really, but people just help themselves.
An act probably worth a lengthy prison term in France...
Chocolate and cherries make a happy mariage.That's a cacao bean in case you were wondering...
Mademoiselle de Margaux from the Medoc makes a divine chocolate-covered cherries - a blend of dark chocolate, preserved cherry / griotte and Armagnac called La Guinette. But they are only available in France - too perishable!Cherries in general have a short shelf life. They should be refrigerated quickly and unwashed. If you don't use your ripe cherries within 6 days it's best to freeze them. But then you'd need to pit them.
You really can't do a cherry post without including Pierre Herme's "Cherry on top" gateau. I've often wondered if the marks on the vertical side are a cutting guide?This thing is so tall, it could be used like the height marks your mom put on the wall...
If you eat the above chocolate + cherries your chances of fitting into Marseille's Le Temps de Cerises $200 buck jeans are practically nil...
On the other hand, take away the chocolate and you might make it.Just 90 calories for 21 cherries makes a nice snack...
+ 2 grams of protein and 3 grams of fiber!
Did you know cherries are sized by rows?
This dates from when the cherry industry packed the top layer of cherries in neat rows.
If 10 cherries fit into a row snugly, that size becomes a 10.
A 9-row cherry (considered the largest and probably too large for the best flavor.)
A 12-row is the smallest.
Back to painting cherries...
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