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The history of the maraschino cherry |
Rum Balls
Grand Member (7 years) 
Joined: Oct 04, 2004
Posts: 828
From: Portland, OR
|  Posted: 2006-02-13 07:07 am Permalink
Fascinating feature story in the Sunday Oregonian:
http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1139277328292680.xml&coll=7
Unfortunately, the on-line version of the story doesn't have the great pictures that went along with the print version, but you can see a small version of the picture of Mt. Hood with a cherry on top in this image of the front page! (top left corner): http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/ftp/Sunday-A1.pdf
I'm intrigued by the "natural" maraschinos being produced for Trader Joe's mentioned toward the end of the story. I'm going to have to check those out.
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hmc
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jan 09, 2006
Posts: 122
From: Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| Posted: 2006-02-13 1:41 pm Permalink
Fascinating. Thanks for the link!
(Can't access the PDF though)
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Rum Balls
Grand Member (7 years)
Joined: Oct 04, 2004
Posts: 828
From: Portland, OR
| Posted: 2006-02-14 06:51 am Permalink
Picked up a jar of the "organic" maraschinos at Trader Joe's yesterday ($1.99 - located with all the other jarred fruit). Not as sickly-sweet and bright red as the "regular" maraschinos, but all in the family agree they taste great. And always nice to buy organic and local.
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