I just don't get it. Why must fruit salad always be the same combination of out of season, drab fruits? Even in places where you would think they know about good food, you still get gross fruit salad. I was not going to write about this today, but I happened to dine in a local cafe. This is a nice place that we frequent often, where they have lovely prepared salads and sandwiches with a lot of local flavors. But today my eye caught sight of some fruit salad sitting in the display. Even at the apex of our harvest, when peaches are so ripe you want to say grace halfway through eating them, restaurants serve pineapples and grapes mixed in with cantaloupe and honeydew melons. For the longest time I did not even like melon, because I associated it with fruit-salad-melon. The watery, bland, tasteless cubes of water that you find in little fruit cups all year round. Why can't people get their heads around the concept of seasonality and things that are grown together usually taste pretty good together. I would be more than happy to have a fruit salad of mixed peaches and berries only, or in the fall some grapes, pears, and apples. It only makes sense. Is not the point of a fruit salad to eat something healthy? How good for you is a pineapple from Gosh-knows-where in the middle of New England? I will be providing lots of fruit salad options in the future, so that I can help show people that fruit salad can, and needs to be, reinterpreted on a seasonal basis.