The fruit yields a slow pleasure of rich, almost floral flesh. By Tejal Rao If you’re very lucky in Los Angeles, you have a big, gnarled persimmon tree just within reach, full of fat orange fruit in ...

SHIKA, Japan >> The production of koro-gaki specialty dried persimmons is reaching its peak in Shika, Ishikawa prefecture. Producer Yoshitsugu Yamazui’s processing shed was partially destroyed by the ...

At West Village tearoom Té Company, chef Frederico Ribeiro dried persimmons using a traditional Asian preservation technique. This year’s crop of 200 hachiyas were hung in neat rows on the ceiling, ...

Over the last couple of months, you may have noticed orange bulbs hanging from the rafters, kitchens, or bars of certain Bay Area restaurants. They’re not avant-garde Christmas decorations that have ...

Residents inspect peeled persimmons hung together to dry at a farm in Sancheong, South Gyeongsang, southeastern South Korea, on Dec. 3, 2025. Dried persimmons, called "gotgam" in Korean, are a Korean ...

Now that it's finally starting to feel like autumn and there's a chill in the air, we're in full fall mode. Tomato girl summer definitely had a moment, but it's about to be granola girl fall, and ...

A traditional Japanese preparation of persimmons called hoshigaki is starting to trend in the U.S. thanks to social media. It turns ordinary... Each autumn, as leaves fall to the ground, persimmon ...

Tosh Kuratomi inspects a persimmon. During the fall, Otow Orchard will harvest about 60,000 pounds of the fruit. Brian Nguyen Sacramento Bee file A paper bag full of conical hachiya persimmons sits on ...

In Korean folklore, there is a story of a tiger and a baby and a persimmon. Basically, a fearsome tiger comes into a village to find some food, while a baby in the village endlessly cries. In an ...