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Pictured Recipe: Arugula Salad with Honey-Drizzled Peaches

Picked fresh, this luscious fruit brings a taste of summer to the table.

By Virginia Willis EatingWell July/August 2008

Healthy Peach Recipes

You have never been hot until you’ve been peach picking in the middle of a Georgia summer. Rumor has it that hell is cooler. The air is thick and stifling. Gnats and mosquitoes buzz about incessantly. Peach fuzz covers your arms and wrists. The combination is an effective blend for guaranteed misery. But in the end, after turning those bushels of perfectly ripe fruit into jam, each amber spoonful is more precious than gold.

I grew up in the middle of peach country in Georgia and each summer the women of my family would make “put-up peaches.” We’d can peaches, freeze peaches and make peach jam. The absolute best, however, was eating fresh peaches straight off the tree, still warm from the sun. While filling our buckets we would take a break, rub the downy fuzz off on our shirts and eat them in the orchard, the sweet juices running down our arms. Back home, Mama would make a pound cake topped with glistening, juicy sliced peaches.

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