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The Sweetness of Summer - Fruits & Veggies PDF Print E-mail

by Guest Columnist & KosherEye Friend, Gloria Kobrin

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When I was a child, we had grapefruits and apples in Winter and peaches, plums and berries in Summer. As I got older, I started to notice that many types of fruits and vegetables were increasingly available all the time. The concept of waiting for the seasons to change and the anticipation of tasting the first strawberries of Summer had disappeared.  Due to flash freezing, speedy transportation and, unfortunately, some degree of biological engineering, we are able to obtain produce from around the country, in fact, the world, at any time of year.

unionsquareI live in New York City where there is a plethora of local farmers markets. In preparation for this article, I went down to the Union Square farmers market with my daughter and grandson to see what was available. There were stalls of


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