Peach: the Supreme Fruit
Written by Asinus Asinum Fricat on May 15, 2008 – 8:56 am -My very favorite dessert is poached white peach with fresh raspberries, a little vanilla ice-cream on the side and topped with raspberry coulis. As a kid I knew where all the white peach orchards stood by heart and quite often made myself sick with overeating them right off the trees. Same with cherries and apricots. And grapes (I could have fed myself just foraging in those days).
Any list of the classical fruits of China should begin with the peach. Native to China, particularly to northern and western areas, peaches, peach wood, and peach flowers have been venerated in China for thousands of years. They were mentioned in the Chinese literature of the sixth century B.C.E.. Pits and other archeological remains found and dated circa 5,000 B.C.E.., confirm origins in the north and western regions of China and Tibet.
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