RecipeMuncher

Recently I found a second-hand copy of , “The Man Who Ate Everything” by  Jeffrey Steingarten,  a collection of essays from 90s written by the former Vogue Food Critic. In one essay on ripeness of fruit, I learnt that dessert fruits are the ovary of plants,  the seed surrounded by flesh. A peach is one ovary,  but blackberries like raspberries are loads of ovaries from the same flower fused together. I may have learnt this in my A-Level Biology course but I doubt it,  too busy (...)