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"At Phillips Farms in New Jersey I bought a “sugar cube” melon that tasted like someone had squeezed a full-size cantaloupe into a super-concentrated version of itself: so sweet it made my apartment smell like a freshly unwrapped Hi-Chew, and eating it at peak ripeness made me wonder if some of the sugar had started to ferment; no melon I’ve eaten this summer — including Zerbinati — has been as intense." - Alan Sytsma