‘Tis the season to seek out lush summer melons and enjoy them any which way you can. Right now, cantaloupes, watermelons, honeydews, crenshaws — even lesser-known melons like piel de sapo, or “toad skin” — are crowding the produce bins. You can trim away the hard rinds, then chop the flesh and add it to [...]
Funny…I always thought of honeydews and watermelons as a tangible piece of summer. Technically, though, they’re winter melons, just like this crenshaw melon I found at my local produce market last week. (“Summer melons,” for the record, include cantaloupes and muskmelons.) Turns out that the reason crenshaws and their winter cousins fall into the winter [...]
