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Seek out local, just-picked fruits that have fully ripened on the vine these are the tastiest and most succulent.
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These young men, who were mostly of no intelligence value, were often taken to Abu Ghraib, where their anger ripened.
NEWYORKER: General Principles
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The company has a proprietary ProRipeVIP avocado ripening program, which uses an acoustic firmness sensor to measure the firmness of fruit and deliver evenly-ripened avocados.
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To get around the problem of tomatoes that aren't ripened in the sun, one chef in Cadiz roasts his tomatoes to access a deeper flavor.
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But it escalated in the last decade, when Mexican growers began using an Israeli variety of vine-ripened tomato that better survived the long journey to U.S. supermarkets.
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Mr. Snow doesn't play down his subject's bigotry or his "cranky certainties, " which ripened with age, but he concentrates on Ford's inventive period, when he was not only designing cars but also inventing the parts that went into them.
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October's harvest is expected to produce only some 2m tonnes of grain, and that is assuming North Koreans do not try to cut the crops before they have fully ripened (maize output doubles in the last few weeks of the growing season).
ECONOMIST: Something on the table in North Korea
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When the first crop of John's beloved hillside vineyard ripened in 1978, they couldn't find a picking crew and the grapes hung for three or four days beyond what they judged to be optimal ripeness a delay that would eventually prove to be a blessing, though they didn't know it at the time.
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