Diamonds of The Desert - Medjool Dates

There are very few dried fruits that are as universally loved as fresh Medjool dates. I used to consider dates as little more than another barely edible dried fruit which was added to American Christmas cakes. (American Christmas fruit cakes are very nearly universally disliked in the States - why we continue to make them, or give them as gifts always baffles me, but I digress...) I didn't really appreciate them fully until in the summer of 1987 on a road trip with a small group of high school friends I was forced to pull into a roadside farm market on route 86, 50 or so miles north of the Mexican border with an overheating engine.

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