This recipe for upside-down peach cake is below. Ridder Tribune Perfectly ripened peaches and nectarines are the most luscious and sensuous of the summer fruits. It's no wonder they have long inspired artists. Warm golden-skinned peaches blushed with deep rose seem painted just to please the eye.
Peaches are prevalent in Chinese poetry and myth.
Tales of mythical peaches of immortality are said to bear fruit every 6,000 years so that the gods may eat of it and continue to live forever. Originally from China, wild peaches were small, sour and hairy. Though wild peaches still grow in China, people have been cultivating and improving them for at least 2,000 years. The cultivated peach traveled westward to Persia, where it flourished so well people assumed it was a native Persian fruit. The Spaniards brought the peach back from the East, and carried it to the New World.