Digest Number 1128

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>The date harvest come in the early fall. There is

>huge date crop in

>southern

>California, generally in the Palm Springs area. And

>there are a couple

>of

>growers who ship organic dates anywhere.

 

>The Date People

>760-359-3211

 

I love the variety package of dates that they sell.

I'm not aware of them being certified organic. Some

types are so sweet that I want to dilute the sweetness

by eating them with nuts. It's odd to hear that's a

bad food combination when they taste so well together.

 

>I still don't really see them selling dried dates. I

>guess you mean

>the packaged pitted ones that are drier than the

>nonpitted fresh

>ones. But I eat them both without noticing much

>difference in them.

>I don't eat dried fruit though. I can't imagine by

>your definition

>of fresh ones that they're rare in North America,

>California and

>other hot areas with palm trees produce a lot of

them.

 

North America is pretty large with different climates.

I think of fresh dates as rare here because I've only

seen them once. I've never been to California and I

haven't found any in Florida. I'm have to check out

some palm trees in the fall. I usually see dried,

which look/taste very different from the fresh...and

they're often sold in the bulk section. Maybe the

fresh weren't completely ripe. They had a crispness.

The weren't extremely sweet like the dried, but I

figured the moisture diluted the sugar.

What I'm calling dried dates are not completely dried.

A friend received some really dried dates in the mail

from India. They were like hard candy and had no

moisture.