Summertime means the re-emergence of plenty of fun things: trips to the beach or pool, outdoor brunches and cookouts with family and friends. It also brings us new in-season fruit to enjoy during ...

Stone fruit are fruit with one large pit, or stone, at their center. Traditional stone fruit are apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches and plums; novel hybrids aprium, pluot, and plumcot have been ...

From citrus bursts to stone fruit sweetness, the calendar writes our cravings. Seasons shape when fruit hits its peak and how ...

There was an upside to those harsh days of February and March. Fruit trees respond to a cold winter and a long, slow spring with enthusiastic blossoming and fruiting; by early April, mid-Atlantic ...

Among the wide variety of fresh fruit available throughout the summer months, many of the most popular choices belong to the stone fruit family. Stone fruits, or drupes, are categorized as fruits with ...

Don’t bite your thumb at a plum. Plums, long lauded for their laxative properties, often play second fiddle to sexier summer fruits like cherries, berries, and peaches — but dieticians say you shouldn ...

Stone fruit is my favorite part of summer … after the warm weather and extended hours of daylight. So called for the singular pit or stone at the center — which houses a seed inside — stone fruit, ...

Summer, to me, is all about stone fruit: dark-purple plums, peaches you can smell from three feet away. But last summer, I struggled to find peaches at the farmers’ markets in New York City. A freak ...