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Article: Paper Bag (and Patience) Turn Pears Juicy Ripe
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 1, 1992
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Apples should crunch.
Pears should not.
If more consumers understood this fact of fruit life, sales of
fall and winter pears would surely rise.
A ripe pear should yield easily to the bite and fairly drip with
sweet, slightly spicy juice. The distinctive pear flavor should come
through.
Jane Morimoto, who works a lot with pears as test kitchen
director of the Evans Food Group in Seattle, stresses the importance
of planning when pears are on the menu.
"When you purchase a pear, it's mature but not fully ripened.
It's a marketing problem. They can't be picked fully ripe, but if
you let them ripen at home they'll be juicy and really nice,"
Morimoto said.
"Place pears in a paper bag ...