Hello from Atlanta, where school started a month ago and we are deep into packing lunches, working hard and trying to ignore the recent courthouse shenanigans that seem to keep Georgia on everybody’s mind.
By some estimates, nearly 95 percent of the crop was lost largely because of a hard and untimely freeze.
But we Georgians have 40 commercial varieties, all of them ripening to a deep sugary tang under the hot Southern sun.
I cherished the few peaches I did get, even though they were crazy expensive and weren’t as sweet or as ripe as usual.
The brilliant Ligaya Mishan, a columnist for The New York Times Magazine, came to my rescue with a recipe to grill them (above).
Organizations:
The New York Times Magazine
Locations:
Atlanta, Georgia, New Jersey, California, Colorado