Dining with Apples from Salad to Dessert
NO FOOD is more versatile or adaptable than apples. Apples are equally good eaten fresh or cooked. Apples go well with…
Heirloom Apples: A Bite of History
HISTORIANS, WRITERS, FILMMAKERS have tried in countless ways to imagine, preserve, and understand the past. Our connection to our ancestors informs…
Apple Pie Times
IT’S NO WONDER that we have felt apple-pie deprived this fall. Consider: FORTUNATELY, Joanne DiNardo and Nina Scott came to the…
Great October Apples
SOME OF THE BEST APPLES of the New England harvest ripen in October. As days grow shorter and nights get cooler,…
Apples for All Ages and Places
IF, as the English poet and hymnodist William Cowper (1731-1800) said, “Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all…
An Uplifting Apple Hash
IT STANDS TO REASON that the apple — that most gregarious of foods — would get along famously with the…
Winning Apple Pies
CALL IT beginner’s luck. “It was the first attempt I ever made at writing my own recipe and baking an…
Why the Iconic Apple?
CHANCES ARE you would not be reading this if I were writing about spinach or carrots. Healthy and delicious as…
How to Eat a Fresh Apple
TWICE A DAY at least I reach into a paper bag in my refrigerator and pull out an apple. It…
New England Apples on New England Apple Day
IT SEEMS ONLY FITTING to celebrate native New England apples on New England Apple Day Wednesday, September 3. The New England…
Classic Cookers: Northern Spy, Baldwin, and Rhode Island Greening
A CENTURY AGO they were the three most popular varieties in the Northeast. Today, Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, and Northern…
A Virtual Orchard Tour on New England Apple Day
TODAY, APPLES ARE BEING CELEBRATED around the region as part of the third annual New England Apple Day. The fresh crop…