A quick note

Although I had planned to write a series on the "best burger in LA", I haven't been eating burgers lately, but instead have opted for truly excellent green mango salad and duck curry from Thai Boom in Culver City. Thus the burger post may come eventually, should I run across an appropriately delicious burger. I will also write about cha gio at a future moment, when all my thoughts about cha gio have been collected and I throw out vitriolic comments about non-rice paper wrappers. In the meantime, I write about strawberries in the springtime, below, and about other enjoyable morsels that come my way...

Spring strawberries

If I had to pick a favorite fruit, it would have to be strawberries. I love their sweetness, fragrance, the beautiful red color, and the tiny, crunchy seeds. My mother used to slice strawberries, making sure to carefully remove the stem at the top, place a little sugar over them, and stir, creating a sweet and juicy mix of strawberries that she would place in a bowl with flowers along the edge. Now that it's spring again, I'm starting to see strawberries in the produce section of markets, and have an inkling to drive up to a fruit stand I saw a few months ago in Calabasas, right up the ridge from the ocean in Malibu, or go to the Santa Monica Sunday Farmer's Market. According to this link, strawberries fall under "What's Fresh", along with tangerines, asparagus, artichokes, cherries, fava beans, blueberries, green garlic, avocados, fresh herbs, radishes, and cherimoyas. Such are the sweet rewards of California in the springtime.