The Personal Watermelon and the Cavaillon

Have you ever stood in the produce section of your local grocery store or at the weekly farmer's market and tried to work out a cost/benefit analysis of purchasing a watermelon?
Costs:  59 cents per pound, energy used to lug said watermelon up three flights of stairs to your apartment, leftovers that are wasted because how much watermelon can one or two people eat?  Benefits: so sweet and delicious, the very essence of summer.  This is where the new 'personal watermelon' comes in.   Easy to carry home, easy to eat in one day.  The Muse has been taste testing these little lovelies all over town for the past few weeks.  Hands down the best has been from Dulcinea growers, purchased at Whole Foods.  How to test ripeness?  The watermelon should feel especially heavy for its size.  Lightly tap the melon.  Hear a dull thud?  It's ready.

Yesterday's farmer's market in Marin yielded a beautiful crop of strawberries  from Sartori Farms, Tomales and French Cavaillon melons from Madison Growers, Yolo County.  The melon man told us that the ripest Cavaillons have a small crack on the top.

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Thanks for the great info regarding Cavaillon melons.