Monday, October 23, 2006

Pick your apples, not your nose: a Sage Advice guide to the fall harvest

On our way home from a wedding in Connecticut this weekend, we took a side trip to Lyman Orchards in Middletown for some apple-picking (and, as it so happened, some egregious kettle corn consumption). We did a LOT of apple taste-testing. Here are a few I brought home with me:


Yellow Delicious: Did you know there's a difference between Yellow Delicious and Golden Delicious? Well, there totally is. In fact, they are two completely different kinds of delicious. While GD is that grocery store apple we all know and love (see below), YD packs a lip-smackin' punch of tartness, like an apple Jolly Rancher. Highly recommended for those of you who like Sour Patch Kids.

Golden Delicious: Many of our party expressed that this is their favorite kind of omnipresent grocery store apple, but they are even better when picked directly from the tree -- unfailingly crisp and delicious, never mealy and mushy. Unless you try to eat a rotten one, but you wouldn't do that.

Jonamac: I heart these the best. They somehow manage to taste like the watermelon Jolly Rancher. Sweet and awesome. Apple-y heaven.

Rome: We had high hopes for the Rome apple. We even skipped down the orchard path singing "Ro-ome if you want to, Rome around the woooorld!" But Rome was a major letdown. Its skin was incredibly tough and it took forever to chew, leaving a mealy taste in the mouth. (I abhor mealiness in apples, in case you can't tell.) And the payoff -- the flavor -- was just not there. Next!

I can't remember the name of this variety (it was either the Macoun or the Empire), so I'll just call it
Red Menace: This is one bad-ass apple. It's dark red -- blood-red, you might say. It's a bit smaller and rounder than those other apples; almost plum-like. A very comely fruit, indeed. It belongs in one of those Lolita Lempicka ads. And the taste is sweet and juicy in an almost magical way.

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