Russ Parsons, food and wine columnist for the Los Angeles Times and author of How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), says never refrigerate these fruits and vegetables:
Bananas
Basil
Underripe stone fruit like peaches and nectarines
Tomatoes
Potatoes
Onions - except sweet onions like Vidalia, Maui and Walla Walla
Garlic
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