Nectarines are so good right now that even the ones from C-Town are worth eating.
I am annoyed, though, to learn that Nectarines and Peaches are the same — meaning they come from the same tree. I can’t understand this. Is this really true? Here’s what I got off of wikipedia:
The nectarine is a variant of peach that has a fuzzless skin. Though grocers treat fuzzy peaches and nectarines as different fruits, they belong to the same species. Nectarines have arisen many times from fuzzy peaches, often as bud sports. Nectarines can be white, yellow, clingstone, or freestone. Regular peach trees occasionally produce a few nectarines, and vice versa. Nectarines are more easily damaged than fuzzy peaches. The history of the nectarine is unclear; the first recorded mention is from 1616 in England, but they had probably been grown very much earlier in central Asia.
