11.   Bursting with ripe cherry fruit, it is lightweight, though heavier than a UFspanish rose, and fresh, with almost no tannin.

12.   Enclose the green fruit in a brown paper bag with a piece of ripe fruit, preferably a banana or an apple.

13.   For the most part, making jams and jellies simply requires cooking down ripe fruit with sugar, adding some pectin and pouring into sterilized jars.

14.   Formaggio fresca, a custardy white cheese formed in baskets, is delicious with ripe fruit.

15.   Fruit is at its sweetest when picked ripe, and ripe fruit has had time on the plant to develop its nutrient content.

16.   For wines that emphasize ripe fruit flavors, as the nouveau wines do, early and complete ripening is a promising sign.

17.   Fully ripe fruit requires less sugar.

18.   Fully ripe fruit with a dash of buttered toast and oak gives this chardonnay flavors and complexity found in wines selling for far more.

19.   If I want white, I opt for a rich Chardonnay with ripe fruit and toasty oak.

20.   It had to be lush and verdant, with ripe fruit on every tree and bush, always ready for the picking and the eating.