Cherries Cherries aren't the only summertime fruit that pleases the palate. Strawberries fit the bill, too. Click here for some fun recipes and trivia. Everybody knows, on the happiest days, what life is just a bowl of. Of all summer's reassurances, cherries always seem the bounciest, the plumpest, the most bursting with flavor.
Cherries are candy, the bon bons of summer produce.
The tragedies and comedies of cherries are not limited to childhood. It is said that the great epicure Lucullus, who is credited with having introduced the cherry to Europe around 70 BC, took his life on the day he realized he had only a few thousand cherries left. Possibly to avoid a similar fate, King Charles V of France planted over one thousand cherry trees in his gardens at St. Paul and Tournelle in the mid-1300s. The Romans knew three kinds of cherries and, even today, we know what they called them. Bright red sweets were Apronians, the blunted rounds were Caecilian, the darkest were Lutatians.