apples

I think Christopher posted something by this author a
few days back, which I thought was terrible. But this
is one of the best editorials I've ever read.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2004/10/30/fallen-fruit/

This guy thinks it's bad in Britain -- I wonder if he's
familiar with the Red Delicious disaster happening here
in the States. This is sci fi movie material -- most
Americans have never tasted an apple! They should call
them Soylent Reds.

Having tasted a Cox's Orange Pippin, tree-ripened under
the Humboldt sun, I feel like I've felt a mere hint of
what's at stake in England.

Every year my grandmother made apple sauce with Yellow
Transparent apples, which were completely displaced by
the larger Granny Smith in the mid 80s. But a farmer
behind my house still grew them, and I continued making
the sauce into 2000, after my grandmother became too ill.
But since I've moved to California I haven't been able
to source them. It's a ton of work to make sauce with
them. They're so small it takes hundreds of apples to
make a batch, and you have to core them by hand because
a store-bought corer would just destroy them. But the
result is sooo worth it.

If I ever find a source, perhaps I can fashion my own
corer to speed the process. I've also thought about
trying it with the cores in...

-Carl

> I think Christopher posted something by this author
> a few days back, which I thought was terrible.

Er, that is, I thought it was interesting but wrongly
reasoned.

-Carl