So go ahead. Buy that giant bag of sour cherries. Accept that your kitchen will look like a murder scene and your fingers will be stained for days.
You are not just pitting fruit. You are performing a culinary rite of passage. You are connecting with generations of bakers who did this before you.
And when you pull that perfect cherry pie out of the oven, golden and bubbling? Every sticky pit was worth it. You are a hero.
Now go pit something. Your taste buds are waiting.
