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 ...

In 2016, when Nicole Yamanaka moved into her grandparents’ old house in Mountain View, she and her then-­fiancé, Byron, became the proud caretakers of two large Hachiya persimmon trees in the yard.

Amor Towles’ 2016 novel “A Gentleman in Moscow” was a lockdown bestseller, the protagonist’s house arrest in a famed hotel resonating with readers stuck in their homes. What reverberates with me to ...

Dried persimmons, called hoshigaki, are an Asian winter delicacy, peeled and dehydrated whole by hanging the Hachiya fruit for several weeks and regularly hand-massaging them until their natural ...

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 ...

As autumn nears its end, "hoshigaki" (or "tsurushigaki") dried persimmons, which are peeled and hung under eaves, can be seen in the Suwa region of Nagano Prefecture. They are carefully dried for ...

Many persimmons are being dried in the city of Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture, creating a scenery like orange curtains. Sixteen to 20 peeled "benigaki" persimmons are tied together with string and ...

Like bright orange harbingers of frosty nights to come, persimmons signal fall weather. Pointy or flat, persimmons of all kinds flourish in Sacramento, where they relish the mild winters and warm ...