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A peeled lychee. Photo courtesy Baldor Food. Lychee is a a tropical evergreen fruit tree native to southern China. The evergreen grows wild in southern China, northern Vietnam and Cambodia, although there is evidence that it has been cultivated since around 2000 B.C.E. Today it grows throughout southeast Asia, notably in southern Japan, India,…
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What to look for in farmers’ markets and specialty produce stores: striped tiger figs. Or, buy them from Melissas.com. The Tiger Fig (also called Tiger Stripe fig and Candy Stripe fig) is prized as one of the most flavorful varieties in the marketplace. It is a light yellow, small to medium, pear-shaped fig with unique…
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Updated August 2026 August 29th is National Lemon Juice Day, a good nudge to us to highlight the versatility of this sunny fruit, well beyond standard recipes. We begin in defense of lemons: Why is a defective car called a “lemon?” In the 1906-1909 time frame, the phrase “to hand someone a lemon,” meaning to…
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