The beauty of a persimmon is undeniable. Their gorgeous deep shades of orange shine in the gray time of fall to winter. Imagine discovering these jewels on a woodland hike or seeing them in your ...

The common American persimmon grows wild across the South and as far west as the Colorado River in Texas. Pondicheri chef Anita Jaisinghani says it took her some time to understand how to enjoy the ...

If the pilgrims had planted persimmons instead of pumpkins, we’d all probably be making steamed persimmon pudding for Thanksgiving, not pumpkin pie. But we all might be making persimmon pudding anyway ...

An acquired taste. I’ve always thought that to be an interesting concept. It basically says to me, “I know you don’t like it right now, but if you choke down enough of it over the coming years, you’ll ...

Claire Krach of Glen Arm, Md., was looking for a recipe for Nancy Reagan’s Persimmon Pudding that she said dates to the Reagan White House. Janet Morrissey of Baltimore had the recipe, which was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLFAX, N.C. — The 10th annual Colfax ...

Part 2 of this season’s persimmon seed winter weather forecast includes information on ripening the fruit, splitting seeds and the idea of brewing up some warm persimmon pudding for Thanksgiving ...

Autumn – what a glorious time of the year. This year has been particularly wonderful. To have azaleas and chrysanthemums blooming at the same time is truly a treat. Add to that the lantana, roses, ...

I recently got a new cookbook in the mail. It’s not very big — at about 8-by-5-inches and a scant 130 pages or so of text, it’s dwarfed by many of the books in my collection. But like its subject, it ...

No fruit—or berry, if you want to get technical—demonstrates the virtue of patience more dramatically than the persimmon. So powerfully astringent is the unripe Hachiya variety, it’s a wonder Kiehl’s ...