Peaches arrived late Monday afternoon. 20,500 pounds of them– fragrant, fuzzy and lusciously juicy. We’ll spend the next two weeks hand-peeling and pitting them for our irresistible Red Haven Peach Preserves.
It’s messy and monotonous and completely exhausting, and it’s one of the coolest things we do here at American Spoon. We love peach season.
Here’s what we didn’t do this summer: post much to our blog. Our office staff was so busy with the web project that we neglected to share news from the farms and the kitchen, where summer fruit was plentiful and carefully tended to. We did manage to capture much of the work of summer in photos, so we thought we’d use this as an opportunity to introduce a new SpoonBlog feature: Wordless Wednesday, a weekly image-based post. This week, Wordless Wednesday takes the form of a photographic retrospective (also, it clearly involves words), but look for new truly Wordless Wednesday posts every week in addition to our regular posting.
Picture a peach. Imagine the soft blush of its fuzzy skin, the sweet freshness of its scent, and the drippy juiciness of its melting flesh. Now picture 35,000 pounds of those blushing little beauties and imagine peeling and pitting each one. By hand.
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