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Fresh Dates – A Farmer’s Market Summer Find

August 26, 2011 By Lisa Rose 4 Comments

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Fresh Dates

Have you ever seen or tasted a fresh date? Before it shrivels into its familiar copper nuggets it has a beautiful delicate yellow color with a crispness of an Asian pear.

I bought a few fresh date clusters on the stem,  available only this time of year, at the Wednesday Santa Monica Farmer’s market from the The Bautista Family Organic Date stand. They have begun to sweeten and soften on the stem and each day I pluck a date and enjoy biting into its delightful mix of textures and flavors – half crunchy and half soft and sweet.

Dates have four stages of ripening known by their Arabic names; kimri – unripe, khalal – full-size and crunchy, rutab -ripe and soft, and tamr – ripe and sun-dried, what most of us are familiar with.

If you have a chance, grab these fleeting treasures before their season ends – and let me know what you think!

Bautista Family Organic Dates

Listen to an interview with Alvaro Bautista and Laura Avery at KCRW’s Good Food website.

Market Watch – Fresh Dates – David Karp

 

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Comments

  1. Julie says

    August 26, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    I have in the recent past tried fresh figs, but fresh dates are something I have yet to try. Will keep my eyes open for them. Thanks for sharing

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  2. Rivki Locker says

    August 26, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    I’ve seen fresh dates but never knew how to enjoy them. So you just eat them raw and ripe? Fascinating!!! I’m going to keep an eye out for them now that I know how to use them!

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  3. allison burgueno says

    September 28, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    I tasted fresh dates this year. Personally I found them a bit dry, made me pucker like a persimmon. My favourite stage is the second to last – rutab -ripe and soft – when they are like sinful little bits of solid yet soft honey. The perfume is light and sweet, the skin peels off and reveals a dessert unlike many others. It had aphrodisiac qualities – I highly recommend them.

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