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Pears are a fruit for still life or preserves
Gillespie Life, Taste
Culinary Adventure Mark Wieser, on September 25, 2024
Pears are a fruit for still life or preserves

Planting trees was my dad’s passion — even before immigrating to Texas. In 1964, I got to stand under the apples trees he had planted half a century earlier in Germany.

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