Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’ll admit it — I hadn’t tried a persimmon until this year. When a few showed up in my weekly produce box, I wasn’t entirely sure ...

Flourishing throughout the Deep South and up the Atlantic coast to Connecticut and as far west as Texas and Kansas, the common persimmon, Diospyros virginiana, is favored for its growth habit, bark, ...

The name Diospyros means divine food in Greek, reflecting the decadent sweetness of ripe or dried fruit, but as Sally Wise discovered, recipes for persimmons can be very hard to find.