fresh dried fruit??

[jmf2188]

i love fresh dried fruit (like the kind you can get at the big fresh food markets around europe) -- anywhere around boston that has fresh dried fruit to get?

[greygarious]

Trader Joe's hasn't carried my favorite, dried pears, in years. For a while I'd find them now and then in smaller supermarkets and some larger ones, but they stopped, too. I found www.apricotking.com, which grows its Bartletts and other fruits and nuts in California. I've been getting their dried fruit every few months for about 3 years now. Pears, apricots, cherries, white nectarines, peaches....all are fantastically large and moist. I cannot imagine a better quality dried fruit.

[jmf2188]

yum thanks! this place sounds great!

[teezeetoo]

fastachi is wonderful and what they don't have Arax or Severn's might. Can't go wrong shopping in this area: stop at La Romagnoli and get some fresh pasta too.

[lbfoody]

Apricot King is great and the apricots are low sulfur. I used to purchase directly from them when I lived in CA, and now I will mail order from them.

[newhound]

Try Fastachi on Mt Auburn St in Watertown-- great nuts, dried fruit, etc.

[jmf2188]

thanks! i went to the website and it looks wonderful - i will definitely try this place.

[twentyoystahs]

Trader Joe's has it too. Not in bulk bins but pre-packaged.

[enhF94]

Any word on non-sulphur-dioxided fruits here? I get wheezy.

[BobB]

TJ's has some unsulphured varieties.