I liked peaches as a child even though I had never tasted fresh peaches in Madras, India; they always came from a can and they seemed good. I remember them mostly if not only through the dessert, peach melba. I remember enjoying this dessert made at home, however, the peach melba experience, the one that epitomizes the dessert in my mind came from Hotel Dasaprakash. I remember late evening drives with family that were planned around eating peach melba at the hotel’s ice cream parlor. It was a treat.