1.   Use firm, ripe pears, not ones that have gone mushy.

2.   And this is essentially a winter dessert relying on frozen raspberries with a touch of Chambord to poach ripe pears.

3.   For another variation on the salad, substitute two ripe Bartlett pears for the shiitakes.

4.   Full bodied, with fig, melon and ripe pear flavors.

5.   He then puts them on a bed of greens studded with juicy ripe pears, setting up a sweet-tangy contrast.

6.   Notes of ripe pears, apricots, orange blossoms.

7.   On a recent day he was doing just that at his stove, gleefully folding ripe pear into sauteed yellow onion and sprinkling a dash of homemade verbena oil.

8.   Packed with creamy vanilla and ripe pear flavors, it finishes with richness, length, balance and breed.

9.   Serve the bruschette alongside a salad of baby lettuces with sliced ripe pears.

10.   The sky was a cool soft blue, and the crisp autumn air was scented with ripe yellow pears and shocks of peanuts drying in the fields.