Harvest to Table

Watermelons need warmth, water, sun and space. But if you are short on warmth–you live in a short-summer region–or space, not much yard, you can still grow delicious, sweet watermelons in a home garden. Large watermelons require 4 months of frost-free, very warm weather to come to harvest and that they can gobble up as [...]

Melon en Surprise was Auguste Escoffier’s title for a five line description of a tasty combination of melons and other fresh fruits in his 1903 masterpiece Le Guide Culinaire. Of course, Escoffier was working from the notes and techniques of Antoine Carême, an earlier codifier of French Haute cuisine. But as you will see here, [...]

There are two ways to eat melon: at the beginning of a meal as a hors d’oeuvre or starter for savory dishes or at the end as a dessert fruit. As a starter, melon can be seasoned with salt and freshly ground pepper or with ginger. As a dessert, melon can be sprinkled with superfine [...]

Honeydew, casaba and Cavaillon melons are classed as winter melons because they ripen more slowly than other melons and are usually not ready until late fall. After harvest, they even continue to ripen in storage. Choose. Honeydews should have a smooth, evenly yellow rind that is slightly green at the stem end. Look for honeydews [...]