Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Tuesday, January 22/2019






Clementines, my favourite, nearly finished, so glad we began eating them in Portugal. Plenty of mandarins, and clementines still to be found, though at slightly higher prices. Less fond of mandarins, both of the taste and of the fact that they have more seeds. Lovely place for citrus fruit in the winter. Various kinds of oranges 🍊, lemon 🍋 trees everywhere, and plenty of grapefruit and pomelos. Citrus fruit development a complicated history. Had assumed that pomelos were an offshoot of grapefruit, but quite the opposite. The (slightly simplified) version is that all citrus varieties are descended from pomelos, citrons and mandarins. The more familiar oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit come later.