An 1896 Indianapolis News article noted that not even sheep or goats would eat persimmons. They are an acquired taste to be sure and a taste that’s hard to explain. The Mitchell Persimmon Festival in ...

If the pilgrims had planted persimmons instead of pumpkins, we’d all probably be making steamed persimmon pudding for Thanksgiving, not pumpkin pie. But we all might be making persimmon pudding anyway ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — This year I'm going to make a persimmon pudding for Thanksgiving Dinner. While persimmon may not be as American as apple pie, there is a variety of them grown on the East Coast ...

We are pleased to fulfill one of last week’s four requests today. It’s for persimmon pudding for Walker. Next week, we promise to tackle the Tuscany soup for G.R. And after that, hopefully, mincemeat ...

The beauty of a persimmon is undeniable. Their gorgeous deep shades of orange shine in the gray time of fall to winter. Imagine discovering these jewels on a woodland hike or seeing them in your ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLFAX, N.C. — The 10th annual Colfax ...

In Season: There are two main varieties of persimmon commercially available in the U.S.: the acorn-shaped Hachiya and the squat, tomato-shaped Fuyu. Persimmons begin appearing in markets in late ...

I recently got a new cookbook in the mail. It’s not very big — at about 8-by-5-inches and a scant 130 pages or so of text, it’s dwarfed by many of the books in my collection. But like its subject, it ...