Their venture grew to an indescribably huge size. ![]() Surrounded by their pear orchards, the brothers decided to create the brilliantly lucrative “Fruit of the Month” club as well as mail order fruit and assorted gift baskets. Harry and David were born to southern Oregon Jews living there in the early 1900s. She explained that she started out years ago on the production floor working with the pears, and over the years, she learned everything there is to know about Harry & David and its campus. We were met by our tour guide, ushered aboard a charming little bus and whisked a short ride away to the Harry & David “campus.” Our guide has been with Harry & David for her whole career. I was really excited to be attending the tour. ![]() Along with the tour information, you receive a $5 voucher to use in the store after the tour. The Harry & David factory tour, the reason we were in Medford, must be booked ahead by telephone and costs $5 upon arrival at the Harry & David country store. Products, gift baskets and fruit can be found here. Harry & David delivers to Canada, and its products are kosher. The product lines from these three brands include gift baskets, chocolates, candies, baked goods, their famous Moose Munch popcorn treats, wine, fruit and flowers. Harry & David also sells its wares under the brands Wolferman’s and Cushman’s. Its products are sold in its retail stores, online and through direct mail. Medford is four hours south of Portland by car and the home of Harry & David, a premium food and gift producer and retailer known worldwide for its famous Royal Riviera pears. To realize this goal, we started by taking a trek to Medford, Ore., in the beautiful Rogue Valley. The course was to take place in Portland, but my passion – food and all that goes with it – had to be satisfied as well. I have also made it for a more healthful after-dinner dessert option which is always so welcome during a season of cookies and pies and cookies and chocolate and… cookies.This fall, my husband, Jack, and I visited Oregon to attend yet another dental course. Whatever you call it it’s easy peasy, and the best part - you guessed it - do ahead! Which is why this fruit salad is really SO perfect for Christmas morning or any of your holiday brunches. Technically I think this would be considered a fruit compote, but we don’t worry about semantics here. If you can’t find it, just sub a cinnamon stick. It imparts a beautiful, floral, licorice flavor to the syrup. If you’ve never used star anise, it is amazing. I use pears, apples, pomegranate seeds and dried fruit, but it’s the spiced-infused steeping liquid that takes it over the top. I’ve been making this delicious fruit salad for several years and I am still obsessed with it. Sure these fruits look lovely together and are easy to cut up, but when was the last time you tasted a fabulous piece of watermelon on Christmas? It’s time to think outside the fruit salad box and try a combination that is a more natural complement to gingerbread and pumpkin and everything else you’re serving for your holiday brunches. Yet people love a good fruit salad for brunch or after dinner and for some reason I don’t see too many fruit salads without watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe and strawberries even at this time of year. But I haven’t seen any farms with cantaloupes and watermelons in their fields in December. You might find a few vendors at local farmer’s markets who sell berries grown in hot houses all year long. ![]() But not even in sunny Southern California do I find locally grown melons and stone fruits in the dead of winter. It’s true we do have access to such a bounty of wonderful fresh produce all year. I know, easy for me since I live in Southern California. ![]() This helps to keep our bodies in harmony with nature, and is more healthful for us as well as the planet. Although I’m not 100% strict about it, I do try my best to eat seasonally as well as locally.
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