During the Summer Watermelons Rule

If a method existed where music could play as you read this article, the selection would be Watermelon Man by jazz legend Herbie Hancock. If smell could waft off of the page while you read, the soft scent of watermelon would caress your nose. For the majority of you, the imagined taste of watermelon makes your mouth water right now as you read this. However, the recipe listed later will really make your mouth water.

If you’ve seen the movie Forrest Gump, imagine the scene in the barracks where the characters are scrubbing the floor and reciting the many uses of shrimp. This list goes on and on. Believe it or not, you've also got a whole slew of watermelon recipes. You’ve got watermelon salad, watermelon skewers, watermelon sorbet, watermelon lemonade, watermelon gazpacho, watermelon smoothies, watermelon mojitos…

And maybe just plain old watermelon: the heart, ice cold, cut in bite-sized chunks, horrendously sweet, a juice inundation on the tongue, the “food of angels.” You want some right now don’t you? Well, you know where to get it, because they sell it just about everywhere around Chico.