Category Archives: History

Did Prohibition Kill Cider? A Malus Myth Investigated

Posted on February 3, 2021 by teapottipper

This article accompanies a panel at 2021 Cider Con called “Malus Busters” chaired by Greg Peck, with Chris Gerling and Doug Miller, devoted to busting some common myths of cider making, cider consumption, and cider history. Prohibition is so often … Continue reading →

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Finger Lakes Fruit Heritage Events at Cider Week 2016

Posted on September 9, 2016 by teapottipper

This post was written as a guest post for the Cider Week Finger Lakes blog as a prelude to Cider Week 2016. Please visit their site to find out about all the amazing events happening during Cider Week Finger Lakes. … Continue reading →

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Cider in Historic Newspapers series

Posted on September 8, 2016 by teapottipper

While researching cider in the Finger Lakes region, I stumbled into an amazing resource, the New York State Historic Newspapers website. Search for cider, and it begins to pop up all over the place. I will be sharing some gems … Continue reading →

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Dorothy Hartley: Verjuice

Posted on February 16, 2016 by teapottipper

I’ve been reading Lost World: England 1933-1936, a collection of essays by Dorothy Hartley, originally written for the Daily Sketch Newspaper. Dorothy was an eccentric, a wanderer, and a writer, whose prose style was that of a novelist or perhaps … Continue reading →

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Cider Salon, NYC

Posted on November 29, 2015 by teapottipper

When you need to advance beyond the next creative horizon; when you have an idea buzzing around in your mind that needs to be refracted through the lens of a different constellation of thoughts; or when you are tired, tired, … Continue reading →

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Two Apple Festivals, One Weekend

Posted on October 25, 2015 by teapottipper

Cider Week Finger Lakes was a smash! And our cup runneth over with events. To start off this Cider Week, I went to two different apple festivals, one connected to Cider Week, and the other not. On Friday afternoon on … Continue reading →

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Mistletoe

Posted on December 19, 2014 by teapottipper

During my research in England, I wrote some observations (reposted below) about my encounters with mistletoe, and I recently got to revisit them in a conversation with Annie Corrigan on WFIU Radio’s Earth Eats Program. If you are interested in … Continue reading →

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Cider on the Prairie

Posted on August 10, 2014 by teapottipper

I decided to pay a visit to a place very close to my heart: Conner Prairie Living History Museum, where I worked for about five summers during college. I had not been back in many years, and I was excited to … Continue reading →

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Wassail: An Unexpected Revival

Posted on January 16, 2014 by teapottipper

I was sitting in a pub in East Hackney, London one January night a few years ago trying to convince a young man from Portsmouth that English people did in fact practice the custom of wassail. “Wassail?” he said. “I’ve … Continue reading →

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Wassail: Some Historical Reports and their Contexts