Apples in French Indochina: Chapa (Sa Pa) – The Phantom Hill Station in Vietnam
In looking at pictures of the former French colonial hill station of Sa Pa/Sapa (formerly called Chapa by French colonizers), …
Category Archives: Apples
The Apples of France: What’s the (Hi)Story?: Speculations about the Origins of Apples in France (Part II)
The frosty morning mists of early autumn roll through the hills, swirling like a white cotton-candy carpet at the base …
Apples in France: What’s the (Hi)Story? (Part I)
You might say that apples and I have a special relationship – apple sauce and apple cakes and apple pies. …
Scenes from La France Profonde
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: M. F. K. FISHER
Anyone who reveres food and eats oysters, who yearns for security and longs for love, and who seeks out experiences and thinks much must discover M. F. K. Fisher. Just who was M. F. K. Fisher and why did James Beard, that gentle giant of the food world, call her a national treasure? And why did John Updike refer to her as “the poet of the appetites”?
Snowbound … The Poetry, The Food, The Reality
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems now here to …
Saints, Souls, and Haints: Apples
In Rustic Speech and Folk-lore (1911, p. 299-300), Elizabeth Mary Wright describes a Halloween custom we still practice: October 31 …
George Washington’s Family Cookbooks
Martha Washington’s cookbook tells a tale, one that really needs no elaboration: George went through life toothless. Recipes for soft …
An Apple a Day
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Folk proverb One of autumn’s most anticipated pleasures — aside from football …
