Adam's Apples

Do I cook with these? a woman asked me at Farmers Market. I told her they were great eating apples, but I don't think she believed me. Misled by the size and by the myth of sour crabs.

Gravenstein is the Macoun of August. These are not quite at peak where I live, but still worth seeking out.

It's August already and we are up to the very fine Gravensteins . Well into the harvest. Personally I am not looking back, but it just hit me that today it is possible to eat super sweet varieties all year round and never have the joy of tart local fruit.

Get out your tiny violins. My sole source for Williams Pride, one of my favorite August apples, has none this year and will be pulling the trees down to grow something else. The apples are susceptible to bitter pit and just too ornery to grow.

Eat us now! The best of the super earlies, crisp and lively Pristine has snap and sophistication. They are ripe now, so what are you waiting for?