A few years ago, my husband and I were visiting his Aunt Celia in Davis, California, and she had a pile of fall fruit on her table. I noticed a bright and glossy looking fruit and picked it up. When she saw me looking at it quizzically she told me it was a persimmon. I’d never had one, and the food adventurer in me was excited to try it. I bit into it like an apple and it was love at first bite. Fast forward about fifteen yea
