Did you know there are over 1,000 different banana varieties? Especially if you're in the United States, it's easy to forget all bananas aren't the singular kind we'll find in supermarkets, the ...

When Colleen Sundlie first started her date business in 2012, she noticed that folks weren't sure they even liked the fruit. "(People) didn’t really know what to do with them, and so they started ...

Back when the milkman delivered to your doorstep, salespeople who stopped by on personal house-to-house calls were generally welcomed, and some even became regular weekly or monthly guests filling a ...

The N&O Summer Desk is a pop-up initiative bringing you timely news and information during the summer heat. Whether you’re heading to the beach, mountains or backyard, the Summer Desk is here to ...

Marguerite Wilson sliced into a Colorado-grown peach at her fruit stand in Santa Fe on a recent Saturday morning and handed it to a visitor. If a perfect autumn day had a taste, it would be like that ...

She was at the Mayo clinic for some tests a few years ago when a stranger stopped her. Excuse me, she said. I think I know you. She studied Charlene Binder's face. "Oh, you're the fruit lady." It ...

We take a moment to mourn the passing of someone you may not have heard of, but changed the way many of us eat. Frieda Caplan, who died Saturday at age 96, made a number of exotic fruits and ...

It's harvest season and Eileen Shirley has free produce again. This time, it's grapefruit. Want some? She has plenty and she hates waste. Anybody's waste. She'll even picks trees in other people's ...

The weekend's snowy weather and my recent columns sharing readers' collections of favorite holiday movies and TV specials still has readers fondly recalling other treasured yuletide film classics.