In 2016, when Nicole Yamanaka moved into her grandparents’ old house in Mountain View, she and her then-­fiancé, Byron, became the proud caretakers of two large Hachiya persimmon trees in the yard.

Dried persimmons, called hoshigaki, are an Asian winter delicacy, peeled and dehydrated whole by hanging the Hachiya fruit for several weeks and regularly hand-massaging them until their natural ...

The hand-painted, weathered sign announcing Otow Orchard, located east of Sacramento in Granite Bay (Placer County), seems out of place amid the spreading ranchettes and Tuscan villas that have grown ...

Dianne de Guzman is the regional editor for Eater’s Northern California/Pacific Northwest sites, writing about restaurant and bar trends, upcoming openings, and pop-ups for the San Francisco Bay Area, ...

A beloved college professor of mine once poetically described to us how persimmons dried in the wind in her hometown in South Korea. She told us that residents would string up the fruits, and when ...

The fruit yields a slow pleasure of rich, almost floral flesh. By Tejal Rao If you’re very lucky in Los Angeles, you have a big, gnarled persimmon tree just within reach, full of fat orange fruit in ...

New Year's Day is not complete without ``sujeonggwa." Good quality semi-dried persimmons have a slightly thick white skin outside but are soft inside. Traditionally, the dried persimmons are soaked in ...

The kaki, or persimmon, came to be eaten fresh relatively recently in Japanese history; for centuries before that it was dried into the delicious hoshigaki. A look at some dishes where this celebrated ...

Dried persimmons A public auction for dried persimmons is under way in the southeastern county of Hamyang on Dec. 8, 2025, in this photo released by the Hamyang County Office. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) ...