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Whole, somewhere cool and dry, it keeps for months. Cut, fridge and use within days.

Cold and dark keeps them for months. Away from other fruit — they ripen everything nearby.

Stored Dutch apples are sold well into spring; the picking season is autumn.

Ripen at room temperature, then fridge. Test at the neck, not the belly.

In the shell, cool and dry, months. Shelled, freeze them — the oil turns rancid.

Same as walnuts: shell on, cool, dark.

Fridge in a paper bag — they mould in plastic.

Paper bag in the fridge. Plastic makes them slimy within a day.

Dark, cool, dry, and never the fridge — cold turns the starch to sugar.

Take the tops off, then the fridge. Weeks.

Fridge, tops removed. A month is fine.

Cool and dark, weeks. Cut surfaces brown fast — lemon or straight in the pan.

Dry, dark, airy. Never next to potatoes — each spoils the other.

Fridge, wrapped, or it perfumes everything else. A week.

Whole, cool and dark, for weeks. Cut, wrap the face and use within days.

As white cabbage. Keeps a long time.

Fridge in a bag with a piece of kitchen paper. Three days.

Fridge, unwashed, on the stem.

Never the fridge. Room temperature, stem-side down.

Dutch greenhouse tomatoes run most of the year; outdoor ones are late summer.

Fridge, a week.

Fridge, a week. Keep the fronds for the pan.

Wrap in a damp cloth in the fridge. Three days.

Wrap in foil in the fridge — it stays crisp far longer than in plastic.

Fridge. Sweeter after a frost, which is why they are a winter vegetable.

Cool and dark, weeks.

On the stalk if you can get them that way — far longer than loose.

Dark and cold. Light turns it bitter, which is why it is sold wrapped.

Fridge, two days. Wash just before eating.

Fridge, three days.

Fridge, a week or more.

Fridge, wrapped, five days.

Fridge, four days. Yellowing means it is past.

Cupboard, never the fridge. Crystallised honey is fine — warm it gently.

Harvested late summer; sold year-round from that harvest.

Cool and out of the fridge is fine for fresh farm eggs. Point down.

Available all year, but hens lay most in spring — that is when farm eggs are at their best.

Wrap in waxed paper, not cling film — it needs to breathe.

Made all year. Cheese from spring and summer milk, when the cows are out on grass, tastes different.

Fridge, bottom shelf. Freeze if not eating within two days.