citrus
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Make Your Own Aperitif With Oranges and Shitty Wine
Vin D’orange is so exquisite, I made it over and over, using the bounty of backyard fruit given to me by people with citrus trees. As I polish off winter back home in NYC, I’m California dreaming about the informal yard produce exchange network, and how it influenced my culinary habits for the better. Any…
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Unexpected Ways You Can Use Orange Peels In Your Kitchen
In addition to being a delicious and portable snack, oranges — or more specifically, their peels — have a second life as everything from candy, to pest control in your garden, to an egg cooker. They also come in handy for keeping your kitchen clean and smelling fresh.
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This Is Truly the Best Way to Eat a Grapefruit
For most of my life, I thought I didn’t like grapefruit. I loved the flavour — grapefruit seltzer is the tops — and the scent, but the actual fruit? Too bitter, even with sugar dumped on top (how my dad always used to eat it) and too messy (the number of times I squirted myself…
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Store Your Pineapples Upside Down, and Other Surprising Ways to Keep Your Fruit From Spoiling
Though it’d be nice, there’s no one-size-fits-all storage methodology to maximise the freshness of different fruits. Some need to be cloaked in a cocoon of temperate air; others thrive when they’re stored below 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius). Some care and storage is obvious (don’t leave berries to rot at room temperature), others, less…