Monday, July 7, 2008

Slow Food: Wild Cherries

Brad, being the professional gleaner that he is, immediately discovered that there are many fruit trees in the woods surrounding the villa including two huge wild cherry trees. The fruit are small and taste a little like Queen Annes. All the cherries at arm's length were gone, but oh, the tops of the trees! What to do, what to do...



If you are Brad Gallien, what you do is you find some boards laying around, lean them into the tree, the tree that is on a hillside and therefore hanging over a ten foot drop, and you climb up after the fruit.




One wasp sting later, victory!



The spoils:



The next step, pitting enough cherries for a tart:



Dessert is ready!



Ciliege Selvatiche:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Aha! So life really is a bowl of cherries!

Susan said...

Brad, you rule.