title: An Apple Harvest: Recipes and Orchard Lore
author:  Frank Browning 
description: &ldquo;[Browning and Silva] brought their childhood memories and love of the crop to <i>An Apple Harvest</i>, which is both eloquent and authoritative.&rdquo;<br>&mdash;Florence Fabricant for the <i>New York Times</i><br>&#160;<br>&ldquo;Just in time for fall comes this colorful [book] with childhood apple memories, portraits of apples, and&mdash;best of all&mdash;innovative recipes, many of them with appetizing color photos.&rdquo;<br>&mdash;<i>The Oregonian</i><br>&#160;<br>&ldquo;The writing is crisp, tart, and juicy, and the recipes are as snake-tempting as they are unexpected. Furthermore, the writing is pure joy, and the authors are distinct in their voices, yet equally and eloquently in love with the subject.&rdquo; <br>&mdash;Jeff Weinstein, former food columnist for the <i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i> and author of <i>Learning to Eat</i>
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  _**Heritage Apples**_ travels beyond the grocery stores of today to present
  the apples of the past. These are the apple varieties—the Gravensteins, the
  Kings, the red-fleshed Pink Pearls—that link us to history, but through food
  movements and taste preferences are re-emerging as the fruit of the future.
  
  
  
  
  
  Discover the histories behind the apples and learn some startling apple facts.
  Identify the taste, appearance, and uses of 40 different heritage varieties
  and gain useful growing and harvesting information. Meet apple growers, cider-
  makers, and people fighting to preserve heritage apples: a lifestyle that
  embraces local and slow food movements. Then try the recipes! Create delicious
  apple-based dishes, such as Chickpea-Apple Curry, French Apple Clafouti, Apple
  Brownies, and more.
  
  
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  “Taking this bite into the world of heritage apples was not only informative
  and entertaining but also inspiring. By capturing these tales of pioneering
  apple growers, futur