Adam's Apples

This week the Wholesale Gods have coughed up two good, and not entirely dissimilar, apples: Kanzi (left) and Koru. They both bear mysterious two-syllable names (trademarks, really) beginning with K and ending with a vowel. It's February and that's what's on the menu today.

Jazz, at left, has the same parents as Kanzi. Today's match pits Jazz (left), a Gala x Braeburn cross, against Kanzi , a, um, Gala x Braeburn cross. So strap yourself in for some real sibling rivalry.

Kanzi, which means "hidden treasure" in Swahili, is a modern breed from Belgium. It is large but not huge, tapered and conical, a cheerful glossy yellow partially covered with an orange-tinged-red blush. Small lenticels are only prominent in the lightly blushed regions, and the unblushed yellow has green highlights.