When a slice of pear-and-Concord-grape tart came with a scoop of blue-cheese ice cream, the kids turned up their noses, and the adults dug in.
The cool climate in Brittany supports apples rather than grapes; tart, not-at-all-sweet bottles of hard cider are on nearly every menu here.
Crisp-skinned dorade was paired with cipollini onions, sweet candied grapes and tart verjus.
The rest of us will be left to grow more manageable and, frankly, more interesting beauties: bloomily translucent Muscat grapes; explosively tart wild strawberries; calendula and cosmos, glowing like quiet fireworks; aromatic bay and thyme and sage the daily miracle of horticulture, available, without pretension or personal risk, to anyone with a windowsill.
White tosses the dish with peeled tart grape and teardrop tomatoes and fresh basil leaves.
–During summer and fall, the tart grape and teardrop tomatoes are part of the daily farmer's market haul, but Marea also sources from Lucky's Real Tomatoes, a family-owned growing and distribution business based in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Now he was tweaking its sweetness with spoonfuls of an inky, tart grape-skin purée.
Verjuice is traditionally pressed from unripe white grapes, yielding a tart, pale gold juice to use in sauces and as a less acidic substitute for vinegar in salads.
It was this wine and the tart Concord grape, which tastes like its wine (not all grapes do), that started my informal wine education.
Grape juice, pomegranate juice, tart cherry juice.
