There used to be a glorious fortnight every summer when fruit stalls would pop up in London’s streets, piled with wooden boxes full of English cherries. The glut would drive the price down to a ridiculously affordable “pound for a pound,” and we binged accordingly on the shiny fruits with their soft and juicy flesh. Yet the days of cheap cherries are over.
04 July 2018, The Tablet
Things ain’t what they used to be
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