Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?

A peach ripe with flavor and fragrance, but without a long shelf-life or the red blush that consumers are said to desire, used to be a peach that nobody wanted. But good taste may win out.

Schyuler Ingle describes a bold peach experiment. Russ Parsons analyses the peach year so far. And Laurie Ochoa talks with farmer and “Epitaph for a Peach” author David Mas Masumoto about his once-unfashionable peaches.

Plus, Shoshana Goldberg with 11 ways to eat a peach and recipes from The Times Test Kitchen. Begins on H3