A single flat of strawberries at peak season costs about $8 at most farmers markets. With two flats and a few pantry staples, you can set a brunch table that looks like you spent the morning in a bakery — and nobody has to know you did most of it the night before. That’s the…
Plant City, Florida calls itself the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World, and if you’ve ever been to the Florida Strawberry Festival in late February, you know they’re not exaggerating. The festival draws close to 500,000 people over eleven days — and if you live within an hour of it like I did for years,…
I spent just over a decade living under an hour from Plant City, Florida — the Strawberry Capital of the World — and every February the Strawberry Festival sent me home with an embarrassing amount of strawberries. A flat minimum. Sometimes more. Standing in the kitchen the next morning staring at all of them, I…
