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Article: SHOP TALK Is it the last straw for strawberries?
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- June 18, 2004
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Strawberries used to be a sublime summer treat but sadly nowadays,
all too many have lost their allure
IT was one of the great rituals of summer. Somewhere around
Midsummer's Day, my grandmother would take us down the garden, past
the early potatoes, lettuces and radish, to the strawberry patch.
My cousins and I would hunt carefully through the leaves until we
had enough small, sweet strawberries to fill the battered old metal
colander Gran had brought out. Our reward was to eat some of the
strawberries there and then in the garden. They were warm from the
sun, sweet and delicious. Somewhere, there is a photo of my Singapore-
born niece as a two-year-old tasting her first Welsh strawberry, ...
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