WATERMELON (Monday, March 4):        You know, when I first got in the produce industry -- whoa, over 30 years ago -- watermelon was something that I really only had what Memorial Day to about Labor Day.  Maybe a little bit before, maybe little bit after, but that was really it; but now we can find watermelon twelve months out of the year, 365 days out of the year.  In fact, right now most of these are coming from

THE FASTEST GROWING FRUIT (Monday, February 25):    Daytona 500 ‑‑ oh, my goodness.  What a speedy race that was yesterday, right?  So it got me thinking ‑‑ okay, fast.  What is fast?  Well, in the produce industry, some produce items grow very slowly like ‑‑ let's see, pineapple takes a year and a half to grow.  Pineapple, 18 months.  What else takes a long time?  Well, it's bananas take up to 9 months to gro

THE HEALTHIEST FRUIT AND VEGETABLE (Monday, February 18):       Hey, kids how are you doing today?  I know you're home from school today because it is President's Day celebrating President Abraham Lincoln and, of course, George Washington.  So I thought I'd really talk to you today.  Do you happen to know what the most nutritious fruit and have vegetable are on planet Earth?  Okay.  Let's start with veget

 KEEPING FROM CRYING WHEN CUTTING AN ONION (Monday, February 11):     It is officially Chinese New Year, year 4711, year of the snake.  Also, so that's Asian cooking.  Also, this week 1963 Julia Child started her ‑‑ the French chef ‑‑ French cooking and Asian cooking.  It all begins, ladies and gentlemen, that's right, those two main cooking begins with onion, beautiful onion.  Whether it's yellow onion, red onion, or w