Japanese Peaches (2004-07-29)
If you come to Japan in mid July or August and not see Mount Fuji, you haven't missed much. Afterall, this mountain is best viewed in winter with a snow cap. Any other time it is just a giant barren cone-shaped hill of volcanic rocks with little vegetation. But if you go home without tasting the peaches here, you have wasted your trip.
Just about the only thing I look forward to in summer is the
delicious local-grown fruit, peaches in particular. Japanese
peaches are much MUCH more fragrant, juicy and a great deal sweeter than
the yellow-flesh peaches that I have eaten in other parts of the world.
Japanese peaches have pinkish flesh and are truly sugary. Just the
way I have always come to know peaches-n-cream as pink and sweet, not
yellow and tart.
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