To prepare the persimmon and cocoa pudding, first remove the stem from the persimmons (1). Peel them (2) and transfer all the pulp into a blender (3). Add the cocoa as well (4) and blend ...

No fruit—or berry, if you want to get technical—demonstrates the virtue of patience more dramatically than the persimmon. So powerfully astringent is the unripe Hachiya variety, it’s a ...