Anxious to get the good price that comes with being first to market, and unwilling to undertake the special handling that tender fruit requires, farmers are harvesting the fruit hard and underripe.
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In 1777, the French chemist Pierre Macquer discovered that the actual chemical benefit of adding sugar to must was an increase in alcohol to balance the high acidity of underripe grapes rather than any perceived increase in sweetness.
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On the morning after San Luis Obispo's peerless Thursday night Farmers Market, our basket contained none of the fresh bounty we'd seen the night before but instead held crunchy melon chunks and dreadfully underripe strawberries.
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No matter the method you use, if the jam is not thick enough, some cookbooks suggest continuing to cook it with the addition of a couple of underripe tart apples that have been peeled, cored and thinly sliced.
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Condiment : Aside from the traditional Indian-inspired mango chutney ( use underripe fruit for this ), mango salsa ( see recipe ) is a great companion not only to tacos and quesadillas but as a wake-up call for plain grilled fish.
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A very Alice-in-Wonderland air hovers over this dressing, which includes the essences of four vegetables and one herb . " The tomato water is for acidity, so underripe ones are fine, " he said, liquefying two in a blender.
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It's the same as when the canners put the ripe, red tomatoes in premium brand cans and the underripe or overly sour ones in generic cans-they might be canned on the same production line but they aren't the same product.
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Breakfast is included with your room rate at the beach, but I was hugely disappointed to find that the fruit selection was no different than you'd find at a Marriott breakfast buffet in Kansas City-- grapes and underripe melon, with not a single wedge of the rich island bounty of guava, papaya, mango, pineapple.
