When life gives you mealy peaches, make crumble!

From shandon — Blog by Shannon Donahue

March 4, 2009

You couldn’t pay me to choose big-box-store produce over fresh fruits and vegetables from a farmers market or CSA. Granted, I live in the fertile San Francisco Bay Area and volunteer at a particularly bountiful farmers market, but I think I speak for most fruit lovers when I say that nothing sums up summer like a juicy, ripe peach.

My mom agrees, but she doesn’t really grasp the inherent difference in quality between a farm-fresh peach and that plucked out of season from a Costco 16-pack. Fruit destined for supermarket or wholesale stores is usually refrigerated, blasted with chemicals that retard ripening, and transported for many miles. By the time my mom chooses her 16-pack of “I’m Ripe!”-labeled peaches, the poor stonefruits have likely spent multiple weeks in limbo and traveled around the world - at least once.

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