1 September Thursday

It´s not a long, long time from May to December, and the days are growing short now that it´s September. Even though we are expected to have a wide-spread, killer heatwave this Labor Day weekend, it feels like a fall heatwave, not a summer one. I´m back in San Francisco, and from the tedium of the local gym treadmill I watched some early leaves fall onto Valencia Street. By the way, If you want to see beautiful fall foliage, California is not the place. Still and all, fall seems to have arrived and arrived early all across the country.

September is a great food month. We can start eating fresh shellfish again. September is oyster season, mushroom gathering, honey harvesting. The beginning of the month especially is the height of tomato season. Persimmons and apples. Quinces and plums. The end of sweet corn, summer squash. It´s an interesting time between berries and stone fruit but before pumpkin and cranberry.