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- Finger Lakes Fruit Heritage Events at Cider Week 2016
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- 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
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Category Archives: Orchards
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
Blossom Time in New York
The blossoms have come and are now almost gone here in upstate New York. Since I last posted, nigh eons ago, I’ve relocated from Indiana to the Finger Lakes region of New York to start a new job. It’s been … Continue reading
Posted in Landscapes, North America, Northeast, Orchards, Vineyards
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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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Relegated to the Burn Pile
I’ve been neglecting the blog lately due to some heavy dissertation writing, rewriting, and career hand-wringing. Many paragraphs have been relegated to the burn pile. Grafting new ideas onto old roots. Trying not to get swept away by some new … Continue reading
Posted in Landscapes, North America, Orchards, Vineyards
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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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Wassail on Twice Cooked
I’ve written a guest post on Wassail for my friend Adam Zolkover’s great blog Twice Cooked: Cooking, Eating, Politics. Follow the link below and enjoy: http://www.twice-cooked.com/2014/01/14/cider-time-wassail/
Posted in History, North America, Orchards, UK, Wassail
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