ISSUE 7, CHERRIES, Part 1: Duke Cherries

The Lost Center of the Sweet-Sour Spectrum

Duke Cherries

With the recent good news that Kentucky’s classic sour pie cherry—the Dyehouse—may have been rediscovered, it is time to think about the history of cherries in the United States, and one peculiar shift in taste that occurred in the 1910s.  For centuries Europeans and Americans cultivated a family of cherries that tasted half way between the…