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Fresh now: navel oranges

Robin Powell

In season: navel oranges.
In season: navel oranges.Jennifer Soo

In now

Anzac Day launches navel orange season. Early-season fruit tends to be paler and more tart than fruit that comes later: it’s perfect for a morning wake-up and to add to a salad of fennel, rocket and dried black olives.

At their best

Autumn fennel has the best flavour. Choose fat bulbs with fronds fresh enough to eat.

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Best buy

Eat packham, beurre bosc and corella pears fresh, poached or roasted before they get overripe and mushy.

In the vegie patch

Choose a healthy fat head of Australian organic garlic and plant the plumpest cloves five centimetres deep and a hand-span apart in full sun.

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