May 10, 2005
Reine Claude
Mr. Ryder (a modern Antrobus under a blogger's disguise) calls me Queen of The Green Prunes. The last time I got a nickname was in 6th grade - it had something to do with some encyclopedical qualities I had at the time.
I'm quoting him, rambling about prunes/plums/ameixas:
"They are superb fruits but a bit of a paradox. What their surface tells us is different from what lies deep down at the core of the fruit.
The Reine-Claude can be entirely green on the outside, pretending to be slightly acid, youngish and immature, when the pulp tells us a different story. Mature, deliciously sweet. The Frogs call it the "Queen Of Prunes", a fruit of the Sun par excéllence, achieving her maturity only at the end of July and allowing herself to be enjoyed for only six short brief weeks. A conundrum fruit, indeed. "Reine-Claude" are all those no longer that young ladies that Nature and good Cosmetics make them look juvenile and "green", while they are in fact perfectly ripe to be tasted."
Despite the wrinkles around my eyes (I smile way too much) and the fact that I'm almost a balzaquienne femme de trente ans, I'm still not in need of that much cosmetics. Also, this kind of fruit has a very powerful laxative effect so it's only fair to add a warning that they should be "enjoyed" with moderation :-))))
Posted by claudia
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Posted by Riccardo at May 11, 2005 09:10 AM
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