The peach, that aromatic, Georgia-grown, nectar-bomb of goodness, is in season, and all is right with the world.
Like the watermelon, but even more so, the peach is a treat that tells us summer is here, and demands full participation. If it’s a good peach, you need both hands and a bib.
Of those super-juicy peaches, “We call them ‘sink peaches,’” said Frank Funderburk, area peach agent with the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service. “You have to lean over a kitchen sink to eat them.”
All things juicy will be celebrated this week, from Wednesday through Sunday, at the Peach Jam 2013, taking place at four different Community Farmers Markets in Atlanta in events sponsored by Slow Food Atlanta.
They’re showing love for a fruit that has somehow slipped from its Georgia pedestal. Georgia’s peach production peaked in the 1940s, when we truly could be called the Peach State. By the 1950s South Carolina surpassed Georgia, and now ships more than double Georgia’s 40,000 yearly tons. In the last 10 years Georgia farmers turned to the blueberry and its supposedly healthful qualities instead. Georgia produced $93 million worth of blueberries in 2011, compared to $31 million in peaches
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