Nutrition educators from the University of Massachusetts Extension Nutrition Education Program in Fall River gave Downtown Farmers' Market passers-by a taste of sorbet made with fresh peaches on August 4, 2011. Nutrition educator Jessica Wilcox cut up fresh peaches, mixed them with sugar and cooked them down into a sweet syrup. She then froze the mix in a Zip-lock bag using some salt and ice cubes to freeze the mixture. The result was a wonderful summer treat that can be made with any number of fresh fruit that is available from the stands at the farmers' market. Cooking demonstrations are filmed each week and aired on Fall River Government Channel which also can be seen on-line. Click here for a video of the demonstration by Patrick Mulgrew. Click here for the recipe. Click here. here, and here for photos from other farmers' market cooking demonstrations by the UMass Extension nutrition educators. For more information, contact Pat Bebo at 508-675-7315.

(Top row) Nutrition educator Jessica Wilcox of the University of Massachusetts Extension Nutrition Education Program gets ready for the cooking demonstration while Fall River Government Television videographer Phil Sabatino and Healthy City videographer Patrick Mulgrew get ready to video the event. (Middle row) Jessica cuts up fresh peaches and places most of them in boiling water and sugar, keeping a few to mix in with the frozen mix. (Bottom row, left) Jessica freezes a bag with the mix in a bag with ice cubes and salt. (Bottom row, center) Jessica shows an alternative method for freezing the mixture in the printed recipe. (Bottom row, right) Nutrition educator Lauren O'Flynn hands Elaine Scolaro a sample of the sorbet to taste.