You may know that the city of Baltimore is near at the top of the Chesapeake Bay. It is a seaport city and with the Bay and the ocean near, it is a seafood city. So, when I moved to Wisconsin, a milk and cheese state, I missed the seafood. The northern border of Maryland is the Mason-Dixon line, the traditional division between the American north and south. Peaches need warmth so another thing that went missing with a move to Wisconsin is peaches.
Spencer Wells, a scientist who specializes in genome anaylsis, stated a while back that the human race is getting stirred up, to the point that genetic markers are losing their association with place. It is a slow process but Wells thought that 100 years from now, it will no longer be possible to trace pathways of travel and points of location by genetic markers. Immigration, emmigration and air travel are re-arranging us all. I know of several families already whose younger members have jobs abroad.
So, as predicted, since back when we moved to Wisconsin, many things have changed. Now, we have crab meat, fish from all over, shrimp, and scallops. And we have peaches. I read that the railroad enabled parts of the US to taste citrus fruits for the first time. Citrus is excellent and I eat some most days but a truly ripe peach is heavenly.
Word spreads around town and there are ads in the local paper: a peach truck will be in town on this day at this location. A friend got in line early and gave us the share of peaches we had agreed on.
We have a good variety of foods these days including occasional rambutan:
