Author: john bunker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578507552
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A guide to tracking down, identifying and preserving rare apples.
Apples and the Art of Detection
Author: john bunker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578507552
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A guide to tracking down, identifying and preserving rare apples.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578507552
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A guide to tracking down, identifying and preserving rare apples.
Old Southern Apples
Author: Creighton Lee Calhoun
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603583122
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A book that became an instant classic when it first appeared in 1995, Old Southern Apples is an indispensable reference for fruit lovers everywhere, especially those who live in the southern United States. Out of print for several years, this newly revised and expanded edition now features descriptions of some 1,800 apple varieties that either originated in the South or were widely grown there before 1928. Author Lee Calhoun was one of the foremost figures in apple conservation in America. This masterwork reflects his knowledge and personal experience over more than thirty years, as he sought out and grew hundreds of classic apples, including both legendary varieties (like Nickajack and Magnum Bonum) and little-known ones (like Buff and Cullasaga). Representing our common orchard heritage, many of these apples are today at risk of disappearing from our national table. Illustrated with more than 120 color images of classic apples from the National Agricultural Library’s collection of watercolor paintings, Old Southern Apples is a fascinating and beautiful reference and gift book. In addition to A-to-Z descriptions of apple varieties, both extant and extinct, Calhoun provides a brief history of apple culture in the South, and includes practical information on growing apples and on their traditional uses.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603583122
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A book that became an instant classic when it first appeared in 1995, Old Southern Apples is an indispensable reference for fruit lovers everywhere, especially those who live in the southern United States. Out of print for several years, this newly revised and expanded edition now features descriptions of some 1,800 apple varieties that either originated in the South or were widely grown there before 1928. Author Lee Calhoun was one of the foremost figures in apple conservation in America. This masterwork reflects his knowledge and personal experience over more than thirty years, as he sought out and grew hundreds of classic apples, including both legendary varieties (like Nickajack and Magnum Bonum) and little-known ones (like Buff and Cullasaga). Representing our common orchard heritage, many of these apples are today at risk of disappearing from our national table. Illustrated with more than 120 color images of classic apples from the National Agricultural Library’s collection of watercolor paintings, Old Southern Apples is a fascinating and beautiful reference and gift book. In addition to A-to-Z descriptions of apple varieties, both extant and extinct, Calhoun provides a brief history of apple culture in the South, and includes practical information on growing apples and on their traditional uses.
The Apples of Maine
Author: George Albert Stilphen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This exhaustive & definitive work sets out in the greatest detail the historical, physical & cultural characteristics of the more than 700 varieties of apples that once grew in the state of Maine, over 200 of which were of Maine origin. Perhaps the greatest value of this book, however, lies in the copious reference notes to each variety, comprising all known American sources prior to 1920. Further, there is a long chapter dealing with the history of Maine pomology since 1629 & another on the discovery of Maine apples never written about. Included also are numerous appendices & several indices to enhance the utility of the work to the researcher. Nevertheless, due to the easily readable style of the text, this book is of the utmost value not only to the pomological historian & variety collector, but to anyone who desires to read of a special way of rural life that is, unfortunately, gone forever. Available in an elegant, hard bound, numbered & autographed edition only from the author: George A. Stilphen, R.R. 1, Box 1347, Bolster's Mills/Harrison, ME 04040. (207) 743-9420. A 30% discount is available to dealers, 20% to libraries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This exhaustive & definitive work sets out in the greatest detail the historical, physical & cultural characteristics of the more than 700 varieties of apples that once grew in the state of Maine, over 200 of which were of Maine origin. Perhaps the greatest value of this book, however, lies in the copious reference notes to each variety, comprising all known American sources prior to 1920. Further, there is a long chapter dealing with the history of Maine pomology since 1629 & another on the discovery of Maine apples never written about. Included also are numerous appendices & several indices to enhance the utility of the work to the researcher. Nevertheless, due to the easily readable style of the text, this book is of the utmost value not only to the pomological historian & variety collector, but to anyone who desires to read of a special way of rural life that is, unfortunately, gone forever. Available in an elegant, hard bound, numbered & autographed edition only from the author: George A. Stilphen, R.R. 1, Box 1347, Bolster's Mills/Harrison, ME 04040. (207) 743-9420. A 30% discount is available to dealers, 20% to libraries.
Apples
Author: Roger Yepsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315677
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Ninety North American apples, described in words and identified in the author's beautiful and precise watercolors. In this charming and informative book, Roger Yepsen explores the world of apples throughout history and in the present. Each featured apple is remarkably distinctive in taste, texture, aroma, and appearance. They range from the unusual, like the Knobbed Russet and Hubbardston Nonesuch, to apples everyone has tasted such as Red Delicious and Granny Smith. Also included are recipes for making everything from apple leather to apple brandy, as well as pies, sauces, ciders, and wines; sources for ordering apples, trees, cider, wine, or supplies; and tips on creating and growing new varieties.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315677
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Ninety North American apples, described in words and identified in the author's beautiful and precise watercolors. In this charming and informative book, Roger Yepsen explores the world of apples throughout history and in the present. Each featured apple is remarkably distinctive in taste, texture, aroma, and appearance. They range from the unusual, like the Knobbed Russet and Hubbardston Nonesuch, to apples everyone has tasted such as Red Delicious and Granny Smith. Also included are recipes for making everything from apple leather to apple brandy, as well as pies, sauces, ciders, and wines; sources for ordering apples, trees, cider, wine, or supplies; and tips on creating and growing new varieties.
Uncultivated
Author: Andy Brennan
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603588450
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
"The best wine book I read this year was not about wine. It was about cider"--Eric Asimov, New York Times, on Uncultivated Today, food is being reconsidered. It’s a front-and-center topic in everything from politics to art, from science to economics. We know now that leaving food to government and industry specialists was one of the twentieth century’s greatest mistakes. The question is where do we go from here. Author Andy Brennan describes uncultivation as a process: It involves exploring the wild; recognizing that much of nature is omitted from our conventional ways of seeing and doing things (our cultivations); and realizing the advantages to embracing what we’ve somehow forgotten or ignored. For most of us this process can be difficult, like swimming against the strong current of our modern culture. The hero of this book is the wild apple. Uncultivated follows Brennan’s twenty-four-year history with naturalized trees and shows how they have guided him toward successes in agriculture, in the art of cider making, and in creating a small-farm business. The book contains useful information relevant to those particular fields, but is designed to connect the wild to a far greater audience, skillfully blending cultural criticism with a food activist’s agenda. Apples rank among the most manipulated crops in the world, because not only do farmers want perfect fruit, they also assume the health of the tree depends on human intervention. Yet wild trees live all around us, and left to their own devices, they achieve different forms of success that modernity fails to apprehend. Andy Brennan learned of the health and taste advantages of such trees, and by emulating nature in his orchard (and in his cider) he has also enjoyed environmental and financial benefits. None of this would be possible by following today’s prevailing winds of apple cultivation. In all fields, our cultural perspective is limited by a parallel proclivity. It’s not just agriculture: we all must fight tendencies toward specialization, efficiency, linear thought, and predetermined growth. We have cultivated those tendencies at the exclusion of nature’s full range. If Uncultivated is about faith in nature, and the power it has to deliver us from our own mistakes, then wild apple trees have already shown us the way.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603588450
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
"The best wine book I read this year was not about wine. It was about cider"--Eric Asimov, New York Times, on Uncultivated Today, food is being reconsidered. It’s a front-and-center topic in everything from politics to art, from science to economics. We know now that leaving food to government and industry specialists was one of the twentieth century’s greatest mistakes. The question is where do we go from here. Author Andy Brennan describes uncultivation as a process: It involves exploring the wild; recognizing that much of nature is omitted from our conventional ways of seeing and doing things (our cultivations); and realizing the advantages to embracing what we’ve somehow forgotten or ignored. For most of us this process can be difficult, like swimming against the strong current of our modern culture. The hero of this book is the wild apple. Uncultivated follows Brennan’s twenty-four-year history with naturalized trees and shows how they have guided him toward successes in agriculture, in the art of cider making, and in creating a small-farm business. The book contains useful information relevant to those particular fields, but is designed to connect the wild to a far greater audience, skillfully blending cultural criticism with a food activist’s agenda. Apples rank among the most manipulated crops in the world, because not only do farmers want perfect fruit, they also assume the health of the tree depends on human intervention. Yet wild trees live all around us, and left to their own devices, they achieve different forms of success that modernity fails to apprehend. Andy Brennan learned of the health and taste advantages of such trees, and by emulating nature in his orchard (and in his cider) he has also enjoyed environmental and financial benefits. None of this would be possible by following today’s prevailing winds of apple cultivation. In all fields, our cultural perspective is limited by a parallel proclivity. It’s not just agriculture: we all must fight tendencies toward specialization, efficiency, linear thought, and predetermined growth. We have cultivated those tendencies at the exclusion of nature’s full range. If Uncultivated is about faith in nature, and the power it has to deliver us from our own mistakes, then wild apple trees have already shown us the way.
The Apple Lover's Cookbook
Author: Amy Traverso
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393065995
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"When you open 'The Apple Lover's Cookbook', you will be surprised to find a guide to 59 popular varieties of apples. Each apple has its own complete biography with entries for origin, best use, availability, season, appearance, taste, and texture, and is accompanied by a color picture. Amy Traverso organizes these 59 apples into four categories -- firm-tart, tender-tart, firm-sweet, and tender-sweet -- and includes a one-page cheat sheet that you can refer to when making any of her recipes. One hundred scrumptious, easy-to-make recipes follow, offering the full range from appetizers, salads, soups, and entrees all the way to desserts. As bonuses, 'The Apple Lover's Cookbook' contains step-by-step color photographs of how to core and peel an apple, detailed notes on how to tell if an apple is fresh, and information about the best times and places to buy apples across the United States. In the introductions to each chapter, Amy takes you around the country to meet farmers, cider makers, and apple enthusiasts. At the end of the book you'll find her extensive list of the best apple products, apple sources, and apple festivals, making it easy to seek out and visit local orchards , whether you live in Vermont or California."--
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393065995
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"When you open 'The Apple Lover's Cookbook', you will be surprised to find a guide to 59 popular varieties of apples. Each apple has its own complete biography with entries for origin, best use, availability, season, appearance, taste, and texture, and is accompanied by a color picture. Amy Traverso organizes these 59 apples into four categories -- firm-tart, tender-tart, firm-sweet, and tender-sweet -- and includes a one-page cheat sheet that you can refer to when making any of her recipes. One hundred scrumptious, easy-to-make recipes follow, offering the full range from appetizers, salads, soups, and entrees all the way to desserts. As bonuses, 'The Apple Lover's Cookbook' contains step-by-step color photographs of how to core and peel an apple, detailed notes on how to tell if an apple is fresh, and information about the best times and places to buy apples across the United States. In the introductions to each chapter, Amy takes you around the country to meet farmers, cider makers, and apple enthusiasts. At the end of the book you'll find her extensive list of the best apple products, apple sources, and apple festivals, making it easy to seek out and visit local orchards , whether you live in Vermont or California."--
Apples of Uncommon Character
Author: Rowan Jacobsen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620402270
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Presents a recipe-complemented celebration of America's apple renaissance that explores 120 of the fruit's considerable varieties, including the Black Oxford, the Knobbed Russet, and the D'Arcy Spice.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620402270
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Presents a recipe-complemented celebration of America's apple renaissance that explores 120 of the fruit's considerable varieties, including the Black Oxford, the Knobbed Russet, and the D'Arcy Spice.
Apples of North America
Author: Tom Burford
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643261177
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This celebration of apples will encourage readers to seek out new flavors, discover tasty methods of preservation, and maybe even try to grow their own at home.
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1643261177
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This celebration of apples will encourage readers to seek out new flavors, discover tasty methods of preservation, and maybe even try to grow their own at home.
Peaks Island
Author: Kimberly Erico MacIsaac
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633812819
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781633812819
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Apples of New England: A User's Guide
Author: Russell Powell
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581576749
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
A guide to more than 200 varieties of apples! This fascinating and helpful guide will offer practical advice about rare heirlooms and newly discovered varieties, chapters on the rich tradition of apple growing in New England and on the “fathers” of American apples—Massachusetts natives John Chapman (“Johnny Appleseed”) and Henry David Thoreau. Apples of New England will present the apple in all its splendor: as biological wonder, super food, work of art, and cultural icon. Apples of New England will be an indispensable resource for anyone identifying apples in New England orchards, farm stands, grocery stores—or their own backyard. Photographs of the more than 200 apples discovered, grown, or sold in New England will be accompanied by notes about flavor and texture, history, ripening time, storage quality, and best use.
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581576749
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
A guide to more than 200 varieties of apples! This fascinating and helpful guide will offer practical advice about rare heirlooms and newly discovered varieties, chapters on the rich tradition of apple growing in New England and on the “fathers” of American apples—Massachusetts natives John Chapman (“Johnny Appleseed”) and Henry David Thoreau. Apples of New England will present the apple in all its splendor: as biological wonder, super food, work of art, and cultural icon. Apples of New England will be an indispensable resource for anyone identifying apples in New England orchards, farm stands, grocery stores—or their own backyard. Photographs of the more than 200 apples discovered, grown, or sold in New England will be accompanied by notes about flavor and texture, history, ripening time, storage quality, and best use.