Eat a peach

Summer's sweetest fruits are a sensation in meat dishes, desserts, cocktails or fresh from a market basket. Mike Peters opens wide for a big bite.

I think I was 8 years old the first time I was given serious responsibility.

My Grandpa Smotek gave me a wooden slingshot, a big hand-carved Y with a thick rubber band stretched across the top. We sat on camp stools at the edge of his huge garden, and I gingerly stretched the stout elastic this way and that.