A few weeks ago, after a tedious morning of errands, I came home, sat on my porch and dipped a spoon into a deep-orange Hachiya persimmon. I'd picked it at the Matt Family Orchard in Tomball. Pulpy, ...

The so-called Tsurunoko or Chocolate persimmon is a most mysterious, elusive and alluring fruit. Technically speaking, it belongs to the obscure class of “pollination-variant, nonastringent” ...

In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I will show you how to eat Persimmons. I will also do a persimmon taste test, in case you are wondering what persimmons taste like. This delicious fruit ...

You might see it sitting in a pile of golden beauty at the grocery store, looking incredibly like a squat orange tomato, but inside lies the taste of honey.

What’s in season: Persimmons can be neatly divided into two types, although there are a number of varieties: Hachiyas are acorn-shaped and need to be softened before you use them; squat Fuyus, shaped ...

My neighbor used to have seven Asian persimmon trees planted in his front yard. Come fall, he would be out harvesting the sweet orange fruits. A friend from church had a huge brown turkey fig tree ...

If you've ever passed persimmons in the produce aisle and felt unsure of what to do with them, you're not alone. Here's a ...

Help me grow better persimmons. I have three trees. Each opens a lot of blooms and sets fruit, but then they all fall off. In addition to water and fertilizer, I have used potash on them. What’s wrong ...

If you`ve spotted persimmons, those bright, brilliant orange, smooth-skinned winter fruits now in the produce section of your market-but haven`t the foggiest notion of what to do with them-this is the ...

Like bright orange harbingers of frosty nights to come, persimmons signal fall weather. Pointy or flat, persimmons of all kinds flourish in Sacramento, where they relish the mild winters and warm ...