Watermelons and Wars: Stories from the Ukraine

I love watermelons and dream of making watermelon jam, but that’s a story for another time. Right now I want to tell you about some of the sweetest, juiciest watermelons I’ve ever eaten that came from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. These watermelons were so popular that in 1988, a memorial sign, “Gifts of the Kherson Region,” was erected in the Kherson Oblast, better known as the Kherson Watermelon Monument.