OK, I’m bragging. (And, perhaps, laying a not-so-subtle guilt trip on all those who made grand promises to us.) But seriously, this citrus, organically grown at Churchill Orchard in Ojai, is a revelation. About the size of a ping-pong ball, the mandarins seedless, sweet-as-candy, orgasmically good orbs of California sunshine. Better, they are a cinch to peel. I have eaten at least seven since they arrived. I’m torn between an intense urge to inhale the whole box and to ration them for another cold, gray week of snow.

I had never heard of kishus. According to the Interwebs, they are a Japanese variety that first came to the United States in the 1980s but have never taken off commercially. (They must be tricky to grow because they are certainly better than the clementines that are ubiquitous at grocery stores at this time of year.)

The good news is that you don’t need Alice or anyone else to send you a package. Churchill Orchard ships kishus from now through about the middle of February  They are $45 for a 10-pound box and $90 for a 25-pound box.

Me? It took me 14 years to launch a Web site and write my very first blog post.

But here I am. So first up thanks to Kenneth B. Smith, the ever-patient and generous designer who worked with me to put together janeblack.net. And the one who insisted this should not be a static “resume” site. Ken made me sit down and get going on the blog. Thanks.

It’s taken so long for me to get this going because, well, much of what I think about food ends up published in The Washington Post and on our section’s blog, All We Can Eat or on Twitter. But as anyone who knows me knows, I’m thinking about food pretty much from the time I wake up until I go to bed so I’m sure there will be plenty to say once I get the hang of it.

Welcome. Stay a while And come back and visit!