| These hot and dry rocky slopes support scorpions, tarantulas, collared lizards, pygmy rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and prickly pear cacti. |
| Tastes like a cross between a pear and a very tart apricot, with a small kick at the end. |
| I buy peppermint tea, red grape juice in a wine-coloured matt package with six languages on it, pear juice and packets of almonds. |
| We skipped dessert which included pear tart, Italian summer pudding and tirami su. |
| Approximately 20 minutes before serving hollow out the core from the bottom of each pear using a melon baller or a Parisian scoop. |
| My parents' Manchurian pear trees are now in full bloom and surrounded by the cheerful drone of bees doing bee-things. |
