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In winter, pick fruit from the freezer

An assortment of frozen fruit, often picked at

Photo credit: Michael Gross | An assortment of frozen fruit, often picked at its peak, can shine during the dead of winter. (Jan. 5, 2012)

Erica Marcus

Erica Marcus (face disguised) is Newsday's food writer. Erica Marcus

Marcus has covered food for Newsday since 1998.

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Dead of winter. It's an apt description for this time of year, when even apples are out of season and virtually every other fruit comes from another time zone, if not another hemisphere.

The cure for a cook's cold-weather blues, however, can be found a few aisles over from fresh produce: Winter is frozen fruit's time to shine. Right out of the bag, frozen fruits are great for snacking, and...

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