The berry season is so close I can taste it!  Each trip to the grocery it becomes harder and harder to resist the southern imports of my very favorite, strawberries!  I first spotted them last month, selling for 4.50$ a pint, and now they are at 1.50$ for two pints.  These were the perfectly ripe strawberries of California.  Very large, bright red and firm, they look delicious.  I ward off the temptation to buy some of these "imports" by imagining the amount of transportation it took to get them into my area.  I pretend that I can taste our local strawberries, smaller but sweeter and juicier than any strawberries I have every tasted! However, I am only human, and this week, I caved in.