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- “The Architecture of Orchards” in Malus
- Did Prohibition Kill Cider? A Malus Myth Investigated
- Gastropod: The Big Apple Episode
- Beer Sessions Radio: Cider and Land
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- Beer Sessions Radio – Still Cider
- Finger Lakes Fruit Heritage Events at Cider Week 2016
- Cider in Historic Newspapers series
- Dorothy Hartley: Verjuice
- Pheasants and Pear Trees
- West County Cider Tasting with Peter Hoover
- Cider Salon, NYC
- Cider Week at the Finger Lakes Cider House
- Two Apple Festivals, One Weekend
- Cheese Meditation Minute
- Blossom Time in New York
- Mistletoe
- Hollenbeck’s Cider Mill – A Thanksgiving Miracle
- Lambic, the Cider of Beers
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Category Archives: History
“The Architecture of Orchards” in Malus
I’m very excited to have my article, “The Architecture of Orchards” in Issue 14 of Malus, a mighty little publication spreading ideas within the cider industry. You can read my article here. It is available on my publications page as … Continue reading
Posted in History, Landscapes, Orchards, Publication, UK
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Did Prohibition Kill Cider? A Malus Myth Investigated
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
Posted in Cider Con, History, North America
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Finger Lakes Fruit Heritage Events at Cider Week 2016
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
Cider in Historic Newspapers series
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
Posted in Finger Lakes Fruit Posts, History, North America, Northeast
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Dorothy Hartley: Verjuice
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
Posted in Apple Varieties, History, Perry, UK
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Cider Salon, NYC
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
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
Posted in Cider Week, Events, Finger Lakes Fruit Posts, History, Northeast
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Mistletoe
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
Posted in Events, History, Landscapes, Orchards, UK
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Cider on the Prairie
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
Posted in Apple Varieties, History, Landscapes, Midwest, North America, Orchards
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Wassail: An Unexpected Revival
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
Posted in History, Orchards, UK, Wassail
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Cider With Maria 