A magnificent fruit, discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it Apple, it which of course in German means “far from Doctor”. No, we’re just kidding. But the Americans do believe that Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman brought this bad fruit to the Americas (well he did plant tens of thousands in the American North East). I call it a bad fruit because its latin name is Malus domestica which is similar to the Latin word for “bad” or “evil” which, some scholars maintain, is why the fruit in the Bible is often said to be an apple. On the other side of the Mediterranean, the Greeks found it to be a forbidden fruit associated with scandalous behavior. They even thought that it caused the Trojan War – a young man named Paris had to decide the fairest of the all goddesses and he chose Aphrodite because she offered him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world: Helen of Troy. Although there are many tales of the escapades of the day, this especially offended the unspoken hospitality laws of the day….But it has a better rep in the UK as from the old English sayin’ “ate an apfel avore gwain to bed, makes the doctor beg his bread”. – Not only is it delicious and nutritious but this red delicious has lots of fiber too. Plus it gives your gums a massage! Crazy for a food that’s been cultivated for millennia. The “original” apple, still growing in the far middle east, is responsible for all the thousands of varieties growing today. Between apple pie and Bircher muesli…we don’t know what we would do without you…exept eat the rest of a delicious apple muesli we just tried. And if you’re still not satisfied, check out what Apple has to say about us.

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