Persimmon loaf cake, for the ones going soft
15/10/2026
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When the box goes soft all at once, this is what to do. Ripe persimmon sweetens and adds moisture, so the cake needs neither sugar nor butter.
From the fields, in writing
What you ask us by phone and on WhatsApp, answered properly: when each fruit is in season, how to keep it, and why ours doesn’t all look the same.
How to keep persimmons the way you want them: firm or soft
12/10/2026
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The persimmon is the only fruit in the box where time works in your favour: depending where you put it you get a crisp one or the old spoon-and-half. You choose.
Arnadí, the pumpkin sweet of Xàtiva
08/10/2026
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One of the oldest sweets still made in Valencia: roast pumpkin, almond and cinnamon, with no flour and no butter. From Xàtiva, and from Easter week.
What a Persimon persimmon is, and how it differs from the old kind
05/10/2026
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One is eaten with a spoon and the other bitten like an apple, and yet they come off the same tree. What separates the two fits into 24 hours in a chamber.
Pumpkin buñuelos, the ones from Fallas
01/10/2026
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They smell of March and of the street, but they’re made all winter. The dough has four things in it and the secret is the resting and the temperature of the oil.
The two squashes: butternut and sweet roasting pumpkin
28/09/2026
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They’re less alike than the shared name suggests: one is for soups and the other asks for an oven. Which to choose by what you’re going to make.
The Italian frying pepper, the one everyone grew up with
21/09/2026
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It’s the pepper of the family frying pan: thin, sweet and with skin so fine you don’t peel it. Nothing like the big green pepper you put in salads.
Aubergine: how to choose one and take the bitterness out
14/09/2026
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The aubergine carries two reputations: that it’s bitter and that it drinks oil. Both have an explanation, and both are settled before you light the hob.
Why there are no oranges in August and September
07/09/2026
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In summer the orange tree has fruit, but it’s green and the size of a walnut: it’s next year’s crop. What’s sold in August comes from somewhere else.
Fried aubergine with orange blossom honey
31/08/2026
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Crisp outside, creamy inside and with a thread of warm honey. The trick isn’t the coating: it’s the cut, the soaking and the temperature of the oil.