On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 01:38:18 -0700, "Bob Terwilliger"
> wrote:

> Charlotte wrote:
>
> > Try sour cherries if you can get them. (I say the latter because they are
> > Not Easy to Find in my area.)
>
> There's a farmer from Lodi selling sour cherries at our farmers' markets. I
> was a bit surprised to find out that California *does* grow a fair amount of
> sour cherries, since I'd only seen sweet cherries in the supermarkets, and
> I'd been told that it doesn't get cold enough here to grow sour cherries.
> But there they were. I have no idea what happens to the bulk of the sour
> cherries which get grown here, but the site I visited (which I think was
> within the UC Davis domain) listed both Morello and Montmorency cherries as
> varieties which are grown in this region.
>
It's always nice to get a head's up here in rfc that something or
other is in season. I saw apricots at the vegetable store this week
too, but I think I'll see if I can snag some sour cherries at the
farmer's market tomorrow. I'm the only person who likes cherries in
this house, so they will be cherry pie for one.

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