Pick of the Season: Clementines
Written By Lesley Porcelli
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Play with Your Food
- Learn to juggle with clementines — their smushed-ball shape and bumpy skin makes them easy to catch.
- The Popeye act: Stuff clementines into your shirtsleeves and flex! Try to keep them balanced on your biceps.
- Zipper oranges. Sweet clementines earned this nickname because of how easily their skin comes off — just poke a finger in the top to get the peeling started.
- Nearly 180 million pounds of clementines entered the United States in 2005 — a weight equivalent to 12,000 male elephants.
- Try this method of eating clementines, similar to one described by M. F. K. Fisher in The Art of Eating: Let peeled, segmented clementines dry on the counter for a couple of hours before biting into them. The outside becomes slightly crispy and the inside incredibly juicy.
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