Bergamot: the Compelling Aroma of a Rare Kind of Citrus
By Nancy Harmon Jenkins
THE PACKAGE ARRIVED overnight from California, from Kazi Pitelka, a woman I had never met in person but to whom I’d been electronically introduced. Inside were seven round bergamots (some call them bergamot lemons, others bergamot oranges), green-streaked yellow orbs from Pitelka’s orchard, along with a small, precious jar of he…