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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  **Acknowledgments**
  
  
  
  
  
  Like an orchard, it takes a lot of people to nurture a book to fruition. First
  thanks go to my agent, Jacky Sach, who took the seed of an idea and brought it
  to life, and my editor, Shannon Jamieson Vazquez, who polished the draft until
  it shone. And as always, Sisters in Crime and the wonderful Guppies
  (especially Lorraine Bartlett) provided bushels of encouragement.
  
  
  Since I am not an orchardist, I relied on many people to help me get the
  details right: Duane W. Greene, Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
  at the University of Massachusetts, and Director of the University’s Cold
  Spring Orchard, who provided much useful information about orchard management;
  Richard Pelletier of the Nashoba Valley Winery in Bolton, Massachusetts, who
  shared his orchard’s wealth of antique apple varieties; May Peters of Peters
  Family Orchard and Cider Mill in Acushnet, Massachusetts, who provides a
  wonderful example of managing a local orchard; and Joyce Ma