In the eastern and southern United States, several native species, especially the northern dewberry (Rubus flagellaris), the bristly dewberry (R. hispidus), and the southern dewberry (R. trivialis), produce excellent fruits.
If it is of low tastes only that you speak, then we will quote to you the saying of Cyrus, the Persian king, that "it is not given to the same land to produce excellent fruits and men valiant in war". I mention these phenomena in the order in which they are first observed.
One sweet year, a grove of peach trees suddenly appeared, with small, excellent fruit.
The winemakers at Avalon have sourced some excellent fruit from coastal vineyards, and enough of it to get it into national distribution.
Heribert Kerpen Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett: $20 ** 1/2 [Rating: 2 and a half stars] Streamlined and neatly tailored with lots of pear and grapefruit, Hesser said, and Prial described it as well made with excellent fruit.
After seeing Mr. Rupf's operation in Alameda, and bearing in mind Connecticut's excellent fruit-growing conditions -- the state is the largest pear grower in the Northeast -- the Chateys decided to switch to eaux de vie.
The biggest drawbacks at Bulgin' are that the waffles are served on paper plates with flimsy plastic cutlery and that you have to pay 85 cents for pure maple syrup or any of the excellent fruit syrups.
Everyone eats the same appetizer (often a seasonal composed salad, like spinach, watermelon, pickled onions and feta cheese; or arugula with cantaloupe and walnuts) and the same dessert (excellent fruit cobblers and panna cottas with roasted fruit; sometimes, less successfully, experiments like mango tapioca pudding).
Across the Channel, where the English had developed nothing comparable to the court style of Versailles, English cooking adhered to a plainer but still admirable style, seen at its best in the great country houses, where the tables were laden with game, roast beef and lamb, fine cheeses and excellent fruit.
The best of the wines have excellent fruit quality, relatively low alcohol and good balancing acidity.
The plate of beautiful grapes, the tiny crescents of apples and pears arranged on ice, could be accomplished by anyone with access to an excellent fruit tree, a grape arbor and a bag of ice.
