Pick up a velvety yellow-orange apricot and enjoy the aroma, then take a bite of this early summer stone fruit to savor the luscious firm texture and flavor. Yes, summer is almost here, and apricots ...

Apricots are the finest of summer's fruits, with dense, juicy flesh and delicate, velvety skins. Piled in baskets in farmers market stalls, they seem to glow in the early morning light. The prettiest ...

In Armenia you can buy apricot garlands; luscious yellow fruit dried in the sun and strung like lumps of amethyst on long necklaces. They hang from dusty roadside stalls – a legacy of the Chinese silk ...

Local apricots have been ripening for the last week or so. If you love this fragile fruit, pay attention! The season does not last long. Most trees have harvestable fruit for just two or three weeks.

The 'Turkey' apricot, a hand-colored engraving after a drawing by Augusta Innes Withers (1792-1869), from the first volume of John Lindley's Pomological Magazine (1827-1828). The Romans dubbed the ...

This is a variation on food writer Claudia Roden’s wonderful orange and almond cake, made using the whole fruit. It works a treat with apricots, which take less time to cook, and are every bit as ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Apricots are a tricky fruit. When they’re truly ripe, there is no finer but ripe apricots are almost impossible to ...

Have you given up on fresh apricots? You’re not alone. Unless you are fortunate enough to have a source for those perfect little Blenheims, most apricots you’ll find at the farmers market are pretty ...

It is said that 100 grams of fresh apricots gives you 12% of vitamin C. Apricots are packed with Vitamin A, which is also known as retinol. It's fat soluble, and helps in the enhancement of vision, ...

Four radiant, yellowish-orange apricots were depicted on each of the cellophane packages stacked on a shelf in a Middle Eastern grocery near my home. An avid fan of dried apricots, I was drawn to the ...