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Podcast: Eat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini
Episode: Episode 205: Apples of Uncommon Character
Description: This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is getting into the spirit of Cider Week! Welcoming James Beard Award winner and author of the new book “Apples of Uncommon Character,” Rowan Jacobsen, he and Cathy discuss that there is indeed life beyond Red Delicious, and even the Honeycrisp Apple. While supermarkets limit their offerings to a few waxy options, apple trees with lives spanning human generations are producing characterful varieties. Rowan explains during an in-studio apple tasting that such apples are now in the midst of a rediscovery. From heirlooms to new designer breeds, a delicious diversity of a...