Here in Northern California, we used to take great pride in being the world's most significant producer of prunes. We had a wonderful California Prune Festival in Yuba city every year, and got lots of old-time music and free prunes - what a combination!

Well, the California Prune Advisory Board has reinvented itself, and we no longer have prunes in California. Now we have dried plums - but they taste just like prunes used to taste. You can find out all about it at http://www.californiadriedplums.org/.

Oh, and the music and samples at the California Dried Plum Festival are almost as good as they were at the Prune Festival.

Now, if you're looking for prune sites, this page has a link that's supposed to lead you to the Royal Prune University - but alas, the link has died. Perhaps it's now the Royal Dried Plum University...

-Joe Offer-