Jerusalem Blog: Fresh Dates

While I wait to check out the 4's route (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/course-check.html ), a deviation of my own back to my favorite place in all Jerusalem (http://jerusalemblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/abundance.html ). Fresh dates have been on the tables in Mahaneh Yehudah for a few weeks. Oblong and yellow, they are crisp and sweet. Put in the freezer, they quickly soften to taste like the familiar dried (raisinified) dates, but juice and not chewy.
Fresh olives are poured out in mounds. I don’t know what you do with these unless you have a special curing recipe.
Sweet tiny golden plums, looking like smooth, miniature apricots, contrast with the Santa Rosas.

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