How-to manual for finding a perfectly pluckable peach

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The good peach should have some weight, a heft in your hand. She should fill your fingers. Now, exert a light tension with the pads of your fingers on the skin, a tugging apart, fingers and thumb pulling in opposite directions, just so. If she’s ready, the skin will part to reveal glistening, succulent flesh.

~Le Marquis de Bond

From The Dungeon Gourmet, by Nara Malone

This is posted as part of G-Man’s Friday Flash 55. See what other participants posted here.

I’ve been so busy writing there’s been no time to blog lately. It’s almost peach season, so I thought I’d take a minute and share a possibly useful, if fictional, peach picking technique from one of my characters. Bond really was talking about peaches. What he had on his mind…that’s another matter.

10 Comments

Nara Malone

August 2, 2011 at 10:44 pm Reply

Thanks for stopping by everyone.

@Carmen I'm going to have to get that recipe for Southern Comfort Peach Pie.

Carmen Henesy

August 2, 2011 at 10:44 pm Reply

Being a Georgia girl by birth, I was drawn to your 55 – I do know about succulent peaches but, wow, the erotic overtones here….mmmmmmm, made me want to bake my famous Southern Comfort Peach Pie and have something else for dessert as well!