KITCHEN COMPANION
The Age
Tuesday December 15, 2009
I BOUGHT this stainless steel cherry/olive pitter from Wheel & Barrow Homewares for $12.95. You place the cherry in the cup, close the tongs and the prong pushes the pit out of the cherry. I€™ve always loved cherries €” their sweet taste and fragrance and using them as a decorative object in a beautiful bowl. Fresh cherries remind me of summer and Christmas and of childhood, when I€™d wear them as earrings in the playground. Apart from being too difficult to grow in your backyard, their only drawback is the pit, the spitting of which is not so genteel. My two-year-old son, Mac, loves cherries too but I don€™t like the idea of him choking on the pits. So on my mum€™s advice, I recently bought my cherry pitter and now Mac and I share cherries together, devouring them with gusto!
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