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May 8, 2013 · 1:00 pm

The Pineberries Taste Like Pineberries!

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One time, when I was, like, three, I ate a buttload of strawberries and broke out into hives.

Fortunately for me and my love of all things red and berried, it’s never happened again. I can enjoy strawberries just like almost everyone else, as long as my intake doesn’t come too close to my own body weight. I imagine that’s basically what happened back in ’84, knowing me.

Before now, when I was a restaurant slave, I spent a lot of time prepping cases of strawberries for salads and desserts, and it was all I could do not to eat the best of the lot.

I could write love poems about strawberries.

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Sexy Fruit

I’ve been sort of obsessed with peaches. They have to be just about the sweetest, juiciest and sexiest fruits out there.

I picked out some great ones at the farmers’ market a couple of weeks ago. I can’t even tell you… I didn’t know such feelings were even possible for fruit. I’d find myself just staring at them in the fruit bowl, waiting anxiously until it was time to eat the next one. Sometimes I’d pick them up just to feel the velvety flesh, and then press them gently to my nose to catch a whiff of their scent.