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How to Dry Fruit in the Oven

We recently scored a huge bucket of sour cherries from a local farm, and after we'd made all the pies and ice creams we could stand, we decided to experiment with drying our few remaining cups. Our on...

Recipe: Back to Basics Cherry Pie

When we were in Italy in June, we stayed at a friend's house that, as luck would have it, was down the road from a fantastically fertile wild cherry tree. Each morning we'd hike up to it and fill our ...

Food-Lover's Guide to Portland, Oregon
The best markets, artisans, and shops for cooks

City: Portland, Oregon Population: 550,000 Local specialties: Salmon, Cherries, Peaches, Wine Portland! It's such a rich city for food-lovers. Here are a few of our picks from Portland's best shops ...

For Cherry Pies, Use a Cherry Pitter

There are very few things I've avoided cooking in my life. Cherry pie is one of them. I'm definitely not a canned filling kind of person, frozen cherries just never seem sweet enough, and I cannot sta...

National Food Roundup: Summer Cherries, Preserved
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 7.01.09

Want those sweet summer cherries to last all year? Preserve them in a light, flavorful syrup. Plus, campfire cooking, fried chicken four ways and a deconstructed Japanese pasta salad....

No Cherry Pitter? Use a Pastry Tip

As we saw earlier this week, when cooking with cherries, sometimes it's just fine to leave the pits in. However, many recipes do require the extra step. Here is our simple and efficient method for rem...

Grilled Cheese with Fresh Cherries from Rachael Ray

I am visiting Washington state right now, and cherries are spilling out of every market stall I pass. Ripe red juicy cherries, scarlet-cheeked yellow sour cherries — they all look good to me! So...

Wait! You Don't Have to Pit Those Cherries
The Atlantic

We get pretty wide-eyed at the cherries that are showing up in the market. We think of all the things we could make with them... and then we remember that we'd have to pit them. And we don't own a pit...

Dark Sweet Cherries: Ten Cherry Recipes for June

Cherries are in season now, and we've been seeing bags of dark, sweet cherries at the market. We've spotted bright scarlet sour cherries too, and we're hankering after a pint or two to bake with. Wh...

Farmers' Market Report: Echo Park
Los Angeles

As die-hard Hollywood farmers' market shoppers, we sometimes forget that there are nearly 100 other farmers' markets in LA County. While few of them match the spectacular size and selection of the Hol...

Good Question: What Can I Do With Morello Cherries?

Katherine has a jar of cherries and needs some help using them up! Want to help? I was at Trader Joe's this weekend and on impulse I bought a jar of Dark Morello Cherries in Light Syrup. What do I do...

Zingerman's Italian Wild Cherries

I was lucky enough to get to play around with a jar of Zingerman's Italian Wild Cherries, which are being given as a prize in our Pie Bakeoff (have you voted yet?). My original idea was to make a pi...

Recipe Review: Melissa Clark’s DIY Maraschino Cherries
Straight Up Cocktails

Last summer I spotted Melissa Clark’s ultra-simple and delicious-sounding recipe for homemade maraschino cherries in the food section of The New York Times, and was intrigued. I made a mental note o...

LA Farmers' Market Report: Stone Fruit

It's unmistakable — stone fruit season is in full swing at the Hollywood Farmers' Market! Different varieties of peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, and cherries started to appear several week...

My Very Local Breakfast with Rouge et Noir Breakfast Cheese

I had a splendid breakfast this morning made even more enjoyable by the fact that, with the exception of the tea, everything came from near-by farms and businesses. It was a simple meal: just some o...

San Francisco Farmer's Market Report: Ferry Plaza

We went to the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market on Saturday and summer is in full swing here in San Francisco. Berries, stone fruits, and tomatoes have arrived!...

Entertaining Tip: Put Herbs in Your Pit Bowl

There are a lot of cocktail foods that require the eater to bit something off or spit a pit out of their mouth - olives, shrimp with tails, summer cherries. We always include a small bowl on our hors ...

Recipe: Cherry Custard Tart

It is indeed cherry season here in the Bay Area, a little early but no one’s complaining. Unlike asparagus and strawberries, cherries are hard to find out of season and tend to induce a little fr...

Northern California Farmer's Market Report: Downtown Napa

Last week while visiting COPIA, we found ourselves next door to the Downtown Napa Farmer's Market. Here's what we saw in season there ......

Cherry Desserts from Bon Appétit

Kathryn found newly in-season cherries at a California farmer's market, and now we're way too hungry for plump, juicy cherries. Raw, half-cooked in a pie, or stewed in a sauce - we'll take them any wa...

Seasonal Spotlight: Cherries!

We couldn't believe our eyes when we were at the Napa Farmer's Market this past weekend. There they were - deep ruby globes of juiciness, taunting us to bite into their plump flesh. We asked the far...

Bittersweet Baking Finalist #1: Candied Kumquat & Bittersweet Chocolate Cherry Mini Galettes

Our first finalist is in, and it was a unanimous choice from the large, diverse set of entries we received in our Bittersweet Baking contest. Our editorial team was won over by Helen's simple and...

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