Produce Briefs...
Brussels Sprouts
Brussels sprouts are members if the Brassica family and therefor kin to broccoli and cabbage. They do, indeed, resemble miniature cabbage. They are hardy and slow growing winter vegetable.
Fresh Green Garlic
Grown in California, regarded as a spring delicacy, fresh green garlic are very young garlic before they begin to form bulbils or cloves.
Seasons/Availability
Cocktail Avocados are available December to February.
Current Facts
Avocados are members of the family Lauraceae, which includes the plants that produce edible cinnamon, camphor, sassafras and the herb laurel (bay leaf).
Description/Taste
Cocktail avocados have two major distinguishing characteristics. They are shaped like a small cucumber and they are void of the usual central avocado pit. The fruit's skin is thin, deep green, speckled and smooth. The flesh is quite like most avocados, smooth, creamy, pale yellow with a lime tone closer to the skin. The fruit, which grows to about 3 inches in length, is entirely edible.
Geography/History
Avocados evolved as a species from animals eating the fruit and "distributing" the seeds. Avocados have been growing wild for at least 13,000 years though they have been cultivated by humans for about 9,000 years. The cocktail avocado evolved as the result of an unpollinated flower on a Fuerte avocado tree. It is a subtropical fruit originally cultivated in Chile. The cocktail avocado is among hundreds of varieties of avocados that rarely find themselves in an actual supermarket, rather they are grown in limited production throughout South and Central America as well as California, where you will find them at farmers markets during the Winter months.
Cocktail Avocados are available December to February.
Current Facts
Avocados are members of the family Lauraceae, which includes the plants that produce edible cinnamon, camphor, sassafras and the herb laurel (bay leaf).
Description/Taste
Cocktail avocados have two major distinguishing characteristics. They are shaped like a small cucumber and they are void of the usual central avocado pit. The fruit's skin is thin, deep green, speckled and smooth. The flesh is quite like most avocados, smooth, creamy, pale yellow with a lime tone closer to the skin. The fruit, which grows to about 3 inches in length, is entirely edible.
Geography/History
Avocados evolved as a species from animals eating the fruit and "distributing" the seeds. Avocados have been growing wild for at least 13,000 years though they have been cultivated by humans for about 9,000 years. The cocktail avocado evolved as the result of an unpollinated flower on a Fuerte avocado tree. It is a subtropical fruit originally cultivated in Chile. The cocktail avocado is among hundreds of varieties of avocados that rarely find themselves in an actual supermarket, rather they are grown in limited production throughout South and Central America as well as California, where you will find them at farmers markets during the Winter months.
