Author: Srikanta
Maybe they're like our birds, which don't tend to look very exotic eiehtr ?These little fruits grow in the hedgerows and the scrubby edges of parks and golf courses in the green parts of the city, along with blackberries and little cherries and crabapples and the nuts I wrote about earlier this year. They are free to pick and full of flavour and in that lies their charm and delight for people like me who grow weary of tasteless imported plums which have sat in a chiller warehouse for many months. Many people commented this summer that despite having a bumper fruit harvest, the big supermarkets are still selling imported produce while our own orchard produce is left rotting on the ground. The supermarkets say of course that their contracts can not be changed at short notice and they have to have a constant and regular supply chain, but it's sad, and it's also sad that the cherry and plum orchards of England have for the most part been grubbed up and that fruits like the Kentish Whiteheart (a superlative yellow and pink cherry) are seen only in collections or in people's gardens.These are the early pictures too, the colour deepens to an outrageous deep red as the juices seep into the alcohol over time