“There are only 10 minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once quipped.
LOL! I had never read that, but personal experience is why I went looking for a recipe for cooked ones :-)
I tried poaching them in wine last time; not a very successful experiment, and I have higher expectations of this one...
(I have a great fondness for the gentleman who sent them, so I want something good to tell him about :-)