Ingredients · Fruit
Cherry
Prunus avium · Rosaceae (rose family)
What it’s like, and how to use it
How to use it
In fruit and dessert infusions. With almond, which brings out the kernel note. In a sakura-style blend with green tea and rose. Rehydrates chewy and sweet.
With food
Almond and marzipan. Dark chocolate. Cream. Vanilla. Duck and pork. Kirsch. Black pepper.
With spices
Vanilla. Almond. Cinnamon. Star anise. Rose. Black pepper.
With tea
Sencha, in a sakura blend. Black tea. Rooibos. Oolong.
Its story
Where it comes from
Wild cherry is native to Europe, Anatolia, the Maghreb and western Asia — from the British Isles and Norway's Trondheimsfjord to Morocco, Tunisia, the Caucasus and northern Iran. Our lot names no origin.
What happened
Rome told the cherry's story backwards. Pliny wrote that the cherry did not exist in Italy before Lucullus's victory over Mithridates and that he was the first to bring the tree from Pontus — a claim the botanist Alphonse de Candolle called an error perpetuated by its incessant repetition, since cherry stones lie in Italy's prehistoric sites and wild cherry at a Bronze Age pile-dwelling on Lake Garda has been carbon-dated to 2077 BCE. What Lucullus probably brought was a good Pontic variety. The word itself comes through Anglo-French cherise from Greek kerasos, probably an Anatolian word, tied to Kerasous on Turkey's Black Sea coast.
On the shelf with it
Every product it goes into.
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Sakura Cherry Blossom, Organic
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She's My Cherry Pie
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