Recipes

Cherries Are The Pick Of The Season

In the summer, life is a bowl of cherries. The long, warm days have produce sections brimming with big, juicy, sweet cherries. To promote the nutritional benefits of fresh produce, there’s the Pick of the Season, a public health initiative spotlighting seasonal fruit and vegetables, with recipes this quarter for cherries, a produce selection that travels from the great Northwest…

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Recipes

Red And Luscious Cherries Make Tempting Desserts Easy To Prepare Cherry Spumoni Can Be A Hit At Parties Reunions And Backyard Barbecues

It’s a great time to enjoy one of America’s favorite fruits. Whether on their own, baked in a pie, mixed in yogurt parfaits or made into ice cream, cherries are popular with people young and old. Tart cherries, the kind most famous in pies, are seldom sold fresh because they are highly perishable. However, canned, frozen and dried tart cherries…

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Observe Passover With Macaroons

For centuries, food has played a prominent role in numerous springtime festivals celebrated by people of various faiths. For Jews, the last of ten plagues, the night before the Hebrews’ flight from Egypt, was the taking of each family’s firstborn son. According to Exodus, though, Jews who followed the rules of Moses by sacrificing a lamb, sprinkling its blood on…

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Fruit Trees

Dealing With Bird Problems

If you are lucky enough to have a cherry tree in your yard, I am sure I don’t need to tell you how much enjoyment can come from them. Just eating the delicious cherries that spawned from your tree is a rewarding experience in itself. Looking out your back window and seeing a magnificent, glorious cherry tree is also rewarding.…

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Vacations

The Cherry Blossom Festival

Although no one can predict exactly when, every spring thousands of Tokyo inhabitants will flock to their public parks to enjoy “hanami”, the viewing of the cherry blossoms. The most popular of the city’s Cherry Blossom Festivals is at Ueno Park. The Park’s main street is lined with over eight hundred cherry trees, the glowing blossoms of which are illuminated…

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