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Several pounds of fruit salad

Yes, I said several pounds of fruit salad. This is what it looks like:

Fruit salad

In a nutshell – or, at least, in a very large plastic container that’s standing in for a very large nutshell – it’s two pounds of strawberries, a pound and a half of grapes, two pounds of kiwi fruit, three pounds of cherries, half a pound of peaches, a little over half a pound of pineapple, a smattering of oranges, all sliced. Given that the kiwis and oranges had to be peeled, the strawberries had to be capped, not all of the grapes looked ready for prime time, and bits of the pineapple had to be lopped off, I’ll allow for maybe the loss of one pound of material from the total. Which brings us to… nine pounds, maybe? Yes, let’s call it nine pounds.

Now, here’s what you do with nine pounds of fruit salad as the summer approaches. … Read more