Look for fruit that is smooth with soft, velvety skin and a bright complexion and avoid hard or wrinkled peaches with blemishes or green tinges. A ripe peach will yield gently to palm pressure ...

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In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing ... houses,” the greenhouses where the earl’s precious fruit grows out of season, warmed by hot-water pipes.