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Nothing says summer like a good, juicy peach. You bite into that soft, fuzzy skin and discover the sun wrapped up in its tender, yellow flesh. The juice runs down your cheeks as you savor its sweet taste.
But in this day and age when you go to the grocery store, usually all you get are hard, tasteless peaches that barely resemble the fruit we grew up with. That’s why I am ever on the quest to find a decent peach.
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Update to this story: Seems that the farm is just a bit too far out in the country to have a restaurant succeed. Here’s a snippet from Fleming & Britt’s newsletter from August 2012: “In 2002, a decade ago, we tried fine dining with Chef Chad Blackwelder. It met with enthusiasm but with too few customers to warrant us continuing. We blamed it on the economy and sadly abandoned the project. Ten years later in 2012 we tried again, leasing [...]