Persimmon season in Missouri is roughly September through October, and while these fruits are a delicious treat, they can be hard to find and are often considered a niche culinary item. There are many ...

Autumn brings two luscious varieties of persimmons to the marketplace. One, the Hachiya, is heart-shaped and a vivid orange. It needs to be fully ripe with a water balloon-like consistency to be ...

Sure, Grandma’s pudding is great. We love it, we really do. But as these recipes from a trio of Mass Ave masters demonstrate, there is so much more to the squishy fruit. Preheat oven to 450. Beat the ...

Like bright orange harbingers of frosty nights to come, persimmons signal fall weather. Pointy or flat, persimmons of all kinds flourish in Sacramento, where they relish the mild winters and warm ...

I’m a little worried the persimmon fairy has forgotten me this year. Now, it could just be that my sense of timing is off, and he usually arrives a bit later in the fall, after the trees are stripped ...

There is a pair of wild persimmon trees, one male and one female, on the edge of the wetlands near my home. Is there sex among persimmons trees? Apparently so. Males have the blossoms for pollination, ...

North Carolinians rank high among Americans who retain a traditional devotion to picking persimmons and putting them in pudding. As long as Tar Heels were by and large an agricultural society, “with ...

LOCAL FLAVOR: Bill Whipple and Monica Williams have already harvested the persimmons from the tree on their West Asheville property and frozen the fruit for future uses. The couple grafted multiple ...