Consider the Pear: How to Properly Ripen, Prepare, and Appreciate Fall’s Forgotten Fruit

Scout farmers markets or greengrocers from September to December for a pear adventure, which is a most worthy culinary odyssey. Tata Zaremba/Unsplash

Money may not grow on trees, but golden treasure does.

Though they are called green Anjou pears, the bell-shaped fruits glistening in the October morning sun on a 20-foot tree at Kiyokawa Family Orchards, in Oregon’s Hood River Valley, exhibit a topaz sheen that makes them look like foot-sized jewels.