HOW TO EAT A PEAR
Don’t Pick When Ripe!
Bite into a tree-ripened pear. Yecchh! It’s brown and mushy on the inside.
Pear is one of the few fruits that tastes best picked underripe, then ripened indoors — and there is as much art to picking and ripening a pear as to growing it. Perhaps more, because pears are relatively easy to grow as compared with other tree fruits.
Although the fruit has to be picked before it is ripe, you can’t pick just any unripe pear and then expect it to ripen into a juicy, sweet, buttery fruit, with the subtle flavor individual to the particular variety. The spicy flavor of Seckel or the hint of vanilla of Concorde pears, for example.
Passe Crasanne pear, ripe and ready for eating
To ripen well, a pear must have attained a certain degree of maturity before harvest. Otherwise, it merely Read more
