Persimmon recs?

[magid]

I went to Russo's for the first time in far too long, and among other impulse buys (chestnuts! fresh water chestnuts! pretty dried beans! all kinds interesting mushrooms! also something that looks like an oversized pale water chestnut, that I'm forgetting what they called), I succumbed to a case of persimmons (case = 16 fruits). And now the question is: what to do with them? I've poked around online, and there are lots of options, but I was wondering if anyone has favorite persimmon uses.

(Oh, and since when are persimmons called "sharon fruits"? Isn't persimmon good enough?)