Juice Worth the Squeeze: Five blood orange dishes while it’s in season

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• With the blood orange, it’s the inside that counts.

The blood orange is the kind of food I’ve always pictured sailors suggesting as a cure-all for scurvy. The crimson flesh and juice have a vitality that lets me know, like Groundhog Day, I can make it through another six weeks of winter. Around town, blood orange dishes and cocktails are popping up on menus — there are five possibilities after the jump (please add any others you’ve recently enjoyed in the comments). If you’re looking for the play-at-home version, Saveur recently wrote a nice love letter to the unique member of the citrus family, with plenty of recipes.