Memorial Day

A Short Window of One Week Most fruits give you time. Apples cling to their trees for weeks, allowing you to return and pick them at your leisure. Maesil — a Korean plum, though technically closer to the Japanese ume — does not. Once ripe, maesil drop. Not slowly, and not over the course of a month. Within a week of peak ripeness, they fall to the ground, bruise, and ferment in the summer heat. ...