We stopped in at an eccentric little citrus grove yesterday, and bagged masses of Temple oranges and pink grapefruit. A sample Temple was sliced and ready for tasting. Yes! We got a bucket for $9, filled with maybe 40 fruits. As always, we should have bought more...
The Temple, a cross between an orange and a tangerine, may have originated by chance first in Jamaica, in 1897. Or not. These beginnings are tough to pin down. But Temples do well in Florida, and elsewhere in the world, but not so well in California. Winter Park in Florida may well have been the birthplace of today's Temple. Read more here, and then take a gander below.
NB Foodie restrained herself from fooling around with the globes pictured. This is a "family" website, after all. ( ?!?)
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