The Holy Grail of stone fruit is in season. Get it while (and if) you can

“Popeye” cartoons. And so when a friend told me last December about a plum — a very special plum;— I was naturally excited. And dismayed, simultaneously, at the prospect of a months-long wait to try the fruit.

The greengages are in season, folks. Right now. And for about a couple of weeks. I got to eat some and if you’re lucky, you might too.in France, or Queen Claude, after one of the daughters of Louis XII, the greengage bears a modest, subdued beauty. Called the “queen of plums” by English food writer Edward Bunyan, the greengage indeed has an air of quiet, aristocratic power.

Karp’s love of the fruit led him to get involved with the cultivation. “I met Andy years ago and I tasted all these fruits and I thought to myself, ‘Jesus, I can’t drive up there five times a summer in order to get this fruit.’ I became hooked!” But greengages have proved tricky to grow, and it’s apparent to Karp why they’ve fallen out of favor in this country commercially.

This year, lucky for me, is a good year for greengages at Andy’s Orchard, and I got my hands on a couple of pounds. I ate almost all of them in one sitting. Barely-there skin yields immediately to sweet, golden-hued, perfectly textured flesh. The first honeyed bite explodes with preposterous sweetness, a shot of nectar balanced with just enough acidity so that it isn’t cloying.

SleepersGourmet

luv the greengage...they remind me of home.

I’m pissed that our local chefs blew up Andy’s for the local market...

slight correction: its edward bunyard, not bunyon, who wrote anatomy of dessert.

latimes

latimes davidlebovitz Your faves made it into the LA Times. 😋

latimes And the green gage is parent to some of the best pluots too, I think

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