The history of the maraschino cherry

Fascinating feature story in the Sunday Oregonian:
http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1139277328292680.xml&coll=7

Unfortunately, the on-line version of the story doesn't have the great pictures that went along with the print version, but you can see a small version of the picture of Mt. Hood with a cherry on top in this image of the front page! (top left corner): http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/ftp/Sunday-A1.pdf

I'm intrigued by the "natural" maraschinos being produced for Trader Joe's mentioned toward the end of the story. I'm going to have to check those out.

Fascinating. Thanks for the link!

(Can't access the PDF though)

Picked up a jar of the "organic" maraschinos at Trader Joe's yesterday ($1.99 - located with all the other jarred fruit). Not as sickly-sweet and bright red as the "regular" maraschinos, but all in the family agree they taste great. And always nice to buy organic and local.