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How to Eat a Peach
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Can you remember the last time you ate a peach so perfectly sweet, juicy and delicious it knocked your socks off? Probably not. In fact, why does most of our produce have so little flavor? For answers we turn to Russ Parsons, award-winning food and wine journalist for the Los Angeles Times . Russ has been tracking American agriculture for 20 years and explains what it means to farm for flavor. He leaves us a recipe for Sugar Snap Peas and Shrimp with Chive Mayonnaise from his latest book, How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table . At last, the Sterns have found a Belgian waffle worthy of Michael's endorsement. Cheers are going up at Beside the Point Café in Akron, Ohio.…