Displaying Your Seasonal Fruit with Rajiv Surendra

It's summer and for Rajiv that means savoring the literal fruits of the season. In New England, where the growing season is short, farmers markets are full of beautiful local produce, and Rajiv likes to stock up. Today he shares his method of storing and displaying fruit in an artful way, before it's consumed.
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★ TABLE OF CONTENTS ★
• 0:00 | Introduction to the Episode
• 0:05 | Summertime Farmers Market Produce
• 0:16 | Bringing Produce into the Kitchen
• 0:30 | Storing Produce Without Refrigeration
• 0:44 | Ripening Stone Fruit
• 1:20 | Using Paper or Canvas Bags
• 1:55 | Displaying Ripe Fruit as Art
• 2:15 | Using an Iron Stone Platter
• 3:00 | Handling Fruit Gently
• 3:22 | Using Vintage Pressed Glass Cake Stands
• 3:53 | Stacking Cake Stands for Fruit Display
• 4:09 | Inspiration from Still Life Paintings
• 4:45 | Displaying Fruit in the Living Room
• 5:00 | Moving Fruit Displays Around the Home
• 5:46 | Alternative to Cake Stands: Using Baskets
• 6:29 | Using Different Materials for Fruit Display
• 7:04 | Basket from Sri Lanka
• 7:36 | Traditional Palm Leaf Bags
• 8:01 | Using Baskets for Melons
• 8:26 | Color Coordinating Fruit Displays
• 9:08 | Seasonal and Fleeting Nature of Displays
• 9:19 | Using Fruit to Beautify the Space
• 9:30 | Embracing Seasonal Produce
• 9:47 | Supporting Local Farmers
• 9:55 | Conclusion
💡 TOPICS IN THIS VIDEO 💡
• Fruit Display
• Summertime Farmers Market Produce
• Bringing Produce into the Kitchen
• Storing Produce Without Refrigeration
• Ripening Stone Fruit
• Using Paper or Canvas Bags
• Displaying Ripe Fruit as Art
• Using an Iron Stone Platter
• Handling Fruit Gently
• Using Vintage Pressed Glass Cake Stands
• Stacking Cake Stands for Fruit Display
• Inspiration from Still Life Paintings
• Displaying Fruit in the Living Room
• Moving Fruit Displays Around the Home
• Alternative to Cake Stands: Using Baskets
• Using Different Materials for Fruit Display
• Basket from Sri Lanka
• Traditional Palm Leaf Bags
• Using Baskets for Melons
• Color Coordinating Fruit Displays
• Seasonal and Fleeting Nature of Displays
• Using Fruit to Beautify the Space
• Embracing Seasonal Produce
• Supporting Local Farmers
• Farmers Market Shopping
• Local Produce Selection
• Storing Fresh Produce
• Seasonal Eating
• Displaying Fruits as Decor
• Fruit Ripening Techniques
• Creative Fruit Displays
• Preserving Fruit Quality
• Sustainable Shopping Bags
• Using Platers for Fruit Displays
• Fruit Storage Tips
• Decorating with Natural Elements
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[@mediumstudio]

you had me at "Displaying Your Seasonal Fruit with Rajiv Surendra"

[@callmeonkeshiasphone]

sooooooooooooooooooooooooo rajiv

[@leahpollard3710]

lol totally

[@nostraa6125]

Hahaha

[@juststoppingby390]

Rajiv is one of my fantasy dinner guests from all time

[@SaraLo110376]

The gentleness, attentiveness and thoughtfulness that Rajiv brings to everything he does is a meditation practice all in itself.

[@_CalmLei]

Would love a meditation video from him!

[@learningbytaste]

How sweet to use the same type of basket as your grandmother

[@donnajarvis9542]

I love how you care about everything that comes into and is part of your home.

[@teenamaria0718]

I can't stop smiling when I watch his videos. He has so much joy for life. It's infectious.

[@shangrila73eldorado]

A Rajiv video demands my full attention. It cannot be watched passively because it is very visual. If you blink, you miss something. Like the reflection of his camerawoman in the glass or the interior layout of his apt. or his latest decorations (the bird under the glass, the human model, the painting, etc.) He's always showing strong imagery...Anyway, I'm often impressed by his technical vocab, like how the hell does he know the plates are called "pressed glass" or the fruit is "stone fruit." I know with Google you can find out anything, but I think in a past life Mr. Surendra was a mechanic of some sort

[@21972012145525]

I mean stone fruit is pretty well known. It's self defining

[@shastriseeraj7130]

Very true,I was reading your comment,then i had to restart the video❤

[@sunshinesideofdarkside]

The things you find to make videos about is amazing. The useful tidbits are what I like most.

[@desertrose128]

Rajiv, have we told you lately that we ❤❤❤ you?

[@diannemckenzie2356]

I live east of Oshawa, NYC gain is our loss.😢

[@AdrianeStevanov]

Rajiv, you are one of most favorite inspirations!

[@piiga]

Ooh I loved the camerawork, walking from room to room made me much more aware of how your apartment actually feels and looks like in real life! So beautiful!

[@pipmitchell7059]

A kindred spirit! With you all the way.

[@susanrombak7959]

Your home is so beautiful and you Rajiv, know how to live. Enjoy your fruits. ✌🏽

[@Shh_kult]

❤

[@DonnaNichols-ep5de]

I completely agree Rajiv❣️ I have always enjoyed displaying fruits and veggies and also I like storing my pantry foods in clear jars or canisters out in the open. There is beauty in our foods❤ colors, textures, etc. Mother Nature is the very best artist❣️

[@mysteriousu5528]

I do the same desr. I love fruits and veggies. In US, $160B worth of food is wasted every year! When you keep your fruits and some veggies outside the fridge in a basket, they will be fine for 3-5 days as long as the inside temperature is around 65-70F. It will motivate you eat good food and finish them faster especially if you have kids/family instead of ending up in garbage! People keep in the fridge and they don't even know what's still left in the fridge before heading to the grocery store to buy some more. Thank you Rajiv for another wonderful and thoughtful video.

[@21972012145525]

You are speaking my kove language. I hope i can make fruit a part of my wedding decor centerpieces AND take home favors 😅❤ cheaper than flowers and utilitarian

[@rajivsurendra]

What's a kove language???

[@taliaaalia5175]

Love.*

[@21972012145525]

@@rajivsurendra love language. My pixel doesn't know how to autocorrect. I miss apple

[@shangrila73eldorado]

@@rajivsurendra a kove is an antechamber in older log houses (often used for storage, sometimes used as a rest room)

[@21972012145525]

Inshallah! Idk how those fruits aren't rolling of the cake stands 😅 a punch bowl is better lol. Idk if I would display fruit outside of the kitchen and dining areas though...

[@LauraPelofske]

I have a small garden and I display my daily harvests of peppers and tomatoes on a cake stand I picked up at a yard sale. I just sourced a dome for it to keep the fruit flies off of it, from Mosser Glass. At dinner time it's there, displayed so nicely, giving me ideas for dinner! I put the fruit out in a big handmade wooden bowl on the dining table, which is in a central high traffic area, which encourages my family to actually eat it. Some of my favorite art is still-lives of well arranged fruit. You can actually tell a story and even create some comical tension if you think of the fruit having different personalities. OK that might sound a bit crazy but it's fun! After your video about wicker, I found an incredible wicker bag, sort of a doctor's bag shape, at a local antique shop. It has a nice wide base and fits so much produce without crushing it. I get so many compliments and inquiries about it at the farmer's market. Thanks for opening my eyes to wicker!

[@artelisx]

You know what Rajiv, I think you’ll fall in love with Japan when you go there. Your passion for tradition, handmade, beauty, the profound, and homemaking is very Japanese. It’s like the earnest heart of Japanese culture but in Western/Tamil/German culture. Only thing that the Japanese have a much deeper appreciation with the beauty of nature and its changing seasons.

[@gwencrosswhite9329]

So lovely. I too enjoy celebrating the beauty of the every day things in our life, especially things from nature ❤

[@anneredmoon]

You are a fine treasure to behold.

[@amyfrosty]

I love how you get so passionate about simple things. 8m from the UK and feel very heavy with the state of humanity lately, but watching your videos reminds me of the beauty we can still find in every day life.

[@angiejones7401]

We need an updated apartment tour!

[@anniekingsbury6842]

I did a birthday cake alternative with halved, grilled peaches. The base was a large platter, cake stand in centre, and graduated glasses starting with shot glasses allowed me to create the illusion of a spiral of grilled peaches. I then sprinkled raspberries, pomegranate seeds and edible flowers over the whole. Colour fantasia!! And healthier than cake.

[@deborahwright6021]

I love his authenticity.. And his humor!

[@naturaldyer]

My favorite activity! I thankfully live in western mass and can get fresh food everywhere this time of year! I just ate the best cantaloupe this morning grown by Mennonites.

[@smusz]

Dude, been doing this for decades -Vermeer got nothing on us, fresh fruit looks great under candlelight as well.

[@craigadams4143]

Being from the south, my mom, grandmother and great grandmother all used fresh fruit and veggies as decor. I do sometimes, too. Gotta say though, that I love to bite into a chilled plum, peach, nectarine from the fridge. It so refreshing that way. 🍇🍉🍊🍒🍓🥝🍋🍌🍍🍎🍏🍐🍑

[@angelahagood3639]

I grab my cup of coffee. It’s another video from Rajiv! I look at his coffee table then at mine…I have a box of Kleenex, a bottle of eye drops, a TV remote and a stack of books…🤦🏻‍♀️ Boy, did I need to see this! Art that you can eat! Rajiv is an amazing human being! One in a million!🙌🏻🫶🏻👏

[@condortraveler7855]

You made my apartment a home, thank you

[@SAHMtoRN]

I’ve always thought of fruits, especially berries, as gems. Can’t display them now because cats 😂 but I love how you find beauty in everything, Rajiv ❤

[@sharischmidt4712]

St Jacobs Farmers Market, St Jacobs Ontario Canada is where l shopped today and what a joy it was!!! Peaches and yellow plums brought in from Niagara on the Lake have been washed and are in beautiful bowl's from travel's to Portugal last spring ,sitting on my dining room table. This makes me happy and my husband tends to eat more fruit when it's so easy to grab😊 Greetings from Southern Ontario Canada

[@avalondreaming1433]

I just saw your video and said, thamk God. I really needed some calm and happiness today. 😊 I just had a peach last night. I had it in a paper bag ripening for several days.

[@faribayagoobian7721]

Rajiv should have his own TV show !

[@Ana-n8y1c]

I don't watch TV. It stinks.

[@DNAdoc1748]

The fruit not only looks good, but must make the room smell amazing!

[@jcrane45585]

I never realized how lucky I was as a child in my grandma's kitchen surrounded by displays of nature's bounty. In the summer she had pears marching down the table runner between glass coke bottles stuffed with zinnias. Peaches and plums and figs on platters. In the fall time crystal dishes full of pecans on every coffee table and a garland of peppers drying draped over the kitchen window. Satsumas and other varieties of seasonal citrus were used to decorate for Christmas. I tried to recreate that look a few Christmases ago. Cost was outrageous. It may have been cheaper to move to the countryside and grow my own orchard.

[@demijo2227]

Oh wow! I literally just put 6 lemons in a glass bowl on my cup chart before sitting down and seeing this video 😊

[@anitabhasker5330]

I just had the time to watch this video and it was just perfect for the terrible week and horrible day I had! Have a very sick daughter who is fighting for her life and spent the week in the hospital. Your video made me relax and I cannot thank you enough! Our family loves local grown fruit too. What I want to know is who the pretty camerawoman?

[@antoniafoster8264]

Your enthusiasm for all things great and small is infectious. As always, enjoyed this video. Thank you. 😊

[@ajawarnock4009]

I love making everyday things into art. I am obsessed with old still lives as well. especially the one's fruit. When I don't get to the easel, workbench, or garden, I can still get my creative groove on with everyday functions.

[@barbaracarlson1331]

Love the idea! I do that also along with onions and peppers and other veggies. Love that large cloche you have! Wow!!

[@brendaeisenbraun226]

Thank you for helping me to calm down and bring simple things into my life

[@kartikasari8351]

You never fail to make me appreciate a little things I remember back then you talk about about flower that will wilted, and it's ok, so we can appreciate it when it blooms Thank you for sharing this video

[@marthamiriam8983]

It’s the simple things in life that bring me joy. This makes my heart so happy.

[@zn7zn7zn7]

I think appreciating these small details makes you feel very grounded. Thank you Rajiv for reminding us that life can feel so enriched and meaningful when we appreciate and see beauty in everything.

[@claudiamann7111]

Love the changing displays. Looks great displayed in that beautiful basket. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@krivokoraivan8941]

Восхищен вашим чувством стиля! Шикарные браслеты и цепочка! Это золото?

[@eileenhoney6426]

Having your fruit out reminds you to eat it….it’s not left in the fridge. Everything you do is perfection and it’s fun to watch the pleasure you get out of the simplest things.

[@wandashaw3551]

Hi Rajiv, growing up, my mom and Grandmother always displayed our summer seasonal fruit on the sideboard in the dining room as well as the coffee table. I think its a great idea and still do in now in my own apartment. Big, beautiful bowl of dark red cherries in a pretty cutglass bowl!! Yummy,

[@Pilineedstodraw]

Idk why but these videos are my comfort zone😭😭

[@winterwoodcottage3657]

Yes. Display produce everywhere. Kids and adults will grab a healthy snack in arms reach because it’s easier than the ice cream.

[@natalialopes719]

You are displaying one of the best parts of summer. Beautiful delicious natural healthy fruits and vegetables! Nature’s gift.

[@susandobie]

I admire and covet your fruit displays, Rajiv, and would love to do the same myself; however, if I try to do that in the summer time here - ackkk - fruit flies appear en masse almost immediately! Love your videos.

[@chelebelle2223]

Your display of fruit in the living room reminds me of an artistic still life composition.

[@taliaaalia5175]

Rajiv I also love these casual style video's with no camera crew. Very personal feeling.i imagine this is freeing for you too so that if the moment strikes you you can film spontaneousl and perhaps more?. Gorgeous. I, too, love stone fruit!

[@21972012145525]

I believe he does have a camera crew? Someone is following him with a camera

[@manita2653]

Thank you Rajiv… you are an Inspiration to many of us…you are a true Artist. Blessings ✨

[@swicheroo1]

OMG. You ARE my spirit animal. I spent months studying how to make fruit baskets. Looked at Dutch Still Life. Watched an episode of Martha Stewart on Fruit Baskets, over and over again. And I probably make at least one fruit basket a week.

[@amybennett1530]

Everything you touch is beautiful. That's a creative and great way to store fruit and veg especially when you have a small kitchen. 💜

[@Lexer584]

Thank you so much, Rajiv. Very beautiful. Love from Germany.

[@BATgirl57]

I”ve been taking all the various fruits I buy even from the grocery store and displaying them on my counter in many various small plates and low bowls. I love matching the quantity of each fruit to just the right size and shape of each dish. As I eat them I’ll rearrange the rest. I’ve always thought they looked so pretty! And when they come from the grocery store of course the very first thing I do is to peel off all the labels! 💚🍎🍋🍐💖

[@bellumxyz1421]

OMG thank you so much! I was actually looking for a way to beatifully display my fruit rather than just have it sit around in a plastic bag. I thought I had to use a special basket for some reason and I never found or got the kind I imagined. I never ONCE considered that I could just use a cake stand. Finally I have an excuse to have my cake stand on my dinner table at all times haha

[@nlbhaduri]

Your art collection is growing….we might need another tour of your apartment! I love a beautifully arranged still life! Thanks for reminding me that fruits make a colourful addition to the decor. I do miss your yellow settee, though.

[@julieschnorenberg5370]

Yes! I have a beautiful clay platter someone made for me that I display my fruit on! I also work at the Farmer’s Market, so I get gorgeous fruit ( I live in Oregon where we have incredible fruit). Thank you!

[@hereforit2347]

Those fruit displays look nice. The basket arrangement was my favorite. 🤩

[@chrisfry436]

Who'd a thunk it?? fruit in the living room?? what a great idea! plus the wonderful smell as it ripens!!

[@JaneHasGame]

I just planted two peach trees on my property here on Vancouver island.. I can't wait to take peaches to the market in a few years. I'm going to try to source the canvass bags to sell as well. Those are wonderful! ❤

[@rbsd952]

Always a pleasure seeing you on here and your wonderful and helpful ideas. 🔥🔥🙏🏾☺️

[@marionandrews176]

As usual, beautifully done. I love how your home transforms with just the simplest thing like a basket full of fruit.

[@donnadejesu4445]

I just love your enthusiasm!!❤

[@user-rj7ts9uk8n]

Rajiv always enriching our ordinary lives. Also I love your appartment. When are you going to gift us with a home tour? 😊

[@anneke9464]

Hi Rajiv, Do you have one of those antique stereoscopes? This has nothing to do with your video today, but when I see your videos and think about your appreciation of art, collecting, and antiques, I am always reminded of one I used to have that got lost. It was just a bit of fun. One of the reasons I enjoy your videos is because you appreciate simple things that are beautiful. Thanks for making this content.

[@aprilninthr2886]

A beautiful still life in your home every time we buy fruit and vegetables!

[@susandorward2293]

I have found that fruit never goes bad if you have it out! I love watching my family taking a piece when walking by the display!

[@evasochocki5209]

Wow. Turning your fruit into a work of art. What a beautiful idea. Very inspiring. I love the basket. You have me wanting to find some cake stands now😊

[@celinefederici6951]

Good idea for those who have not thought to do this.I have been displaying fruits and veggies for yrs. on a long oval silver-like tray w brass handles. It is perfect for the shelf divider between my kitchen and dining room. l If there are too much they go to the window sill or the dining table. Pineapple, a symbol of hospitality is is one of my favorite fruits to look at, paint and draw.

[@hereforit2347]

I have a lemon tree in the backyard. I keep lemons in a brass dish on my dining room table year round. At Christmas I switch it out and create something Christmas-y if I have people over. I also have a vase with a greenery arrangement that I keep on the dining room table. It’s kind of tall so I switch it out in favor of the lemons if someone is over for a meal so we can see and talk to each other. 🍋

[@sylvianblue]

I never knew I needed this video! Rajiv, you could tell me how to throw away my trash in a beautiful way and I’d watch it! 🙏 When I was growing up here in 🇬🇧 peaches were a rarity and so I have a special love for the look, feel and taste of peaches. 🍑p.s ALL of my fruit lives in the living room, always has done so this doesn’t seem odd to me!

[@celticlass8573]

I'd never thought about displaying in-season fruit as art before. Will be heading to St Jacob's tomorrow!

[@TheDam1776]

Love watching your videos, Rajiv. Thank you for sharing. I too love summer fruit; there is so much of it at one time that we need to hurry up and eat it all at once!

[@elbee1290]

Thoroughly enjoyed watching you carefully handle your fruit and place it artfully on display. You're a true master of aesthetics. I live in NYC too, and yet if I put peaches out, even hard, unripe ones, then by morning they have mold on them 90% of the time. Anyone else having this problem? Ideas how to remedy that?

[@phubos]

I was feeling so anxious and this video calmed me right down 💕 thanks for sharing your zest for life, it is infectious 😘✨

[@karencox6302]

Rajiv makes me happy!

[@AngeliaLiggins-ss1si]

Just wanted to let you know Rajiv, watching you display that yellow fruit, made me listen to the song Yellow by Coldplay.😃😎

[@mario.coaching]

Man, the video was great, but i just couldn't stop rewatching the faces your fridge were making of you on the beginning haha

[@ajadegirl]

you did it again Rajiv, this is a great idea. awesome sauce.

[@paopaupow]

That's some ASMR with the paper bags 🤭 love your philosophy of creating your own happiness with the simple things and attainable things and tweaking it a bit.

[@dianaf2820]

I learn so much from you, Rajiv! Thank you so much.

[@valeriegarafolo3894]

So simple and elegant! Thank you for all the inspiration ! love love love your videos😊

[@borge2014]

I love this. OMG that landscape painting by the fruit is magnificent, and you painted it! The colors are marvelous. ✨✨

[@step7274]

Oh boy, a Rajiv video, perfect!! Thank you❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@patriciapamponette9841]

I love those baskets, sure would love to own 2 of them ❤ awesome demo.Rajiv

[@EricaNernie]

I love displaying pomegranates and lemons. So pretty.

[@iOnoma]

You are honestly my favorite youtuber, I find a good friend in you🌹

[@trivenipraveen2339]

The bangles you are wearing, my mom used to wear them always.. suddenly jogged a lot of sweet memories..❤

[@katieg4083]

I am obsessed with that anatomical model in a cloche.

[@DeathByFashion1]

Im new here…when I saw the living room I gasped! I need that ginger jar!❤

[@learningbytaste]

I knew ironstone would make an appearance 😂. I do this as well. I bet those canvas bags would be a sinch to make.

[@talkingcrow]

Or just tie a tea towel around the fruit like a bento bag 😊

[@shess1640]

pluots are plums/apricots.... that makes it easier to know how to pronounce "pluots." Thank you for another delicious video : )

[@Ana-n8y1c]

I never really ate much fruit as a child. I feel like it is underappreciated all the amazing varieties God created. Some favorites are papaya with lemon, spple with nut butter.

[@leahpollard3710]

That palm leaf produce basket looks diesel for carrying heavy groceries, I love it!

[@kandiblick3822]

❤❤❤❤... That cloche! Love the composition!