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Artist William Mullan is documenting the world's strangest apples

Posted by cfabbro
Tags: apples, photography, books, odd apples, william mullan, artists, interviews, author.leah balagopal, source.fieldmag
https://www.fieldmag.com/articles/odd-apples-photo-book-artist-william-mullan-interview

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Title
Book Report: An Ode to the World's Strange and Unique Apples
Published
Dec 20 2022
Word count
1561 words

5 comments

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    oniony
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    I grew up in Croydon, a suburb of London in the UK in the 1980s. My parents would take me to Hewitt's Farm, which was – at one point – the largest pick-your-own farm in Europe. The russets were my...

    I grew up in Croydon, a suburb of London in the UK in the 1980s. My parents would take me to Hewitt's Farm, which was – at one point – the largest pick-your-own farm in Europe. The russets were my absolute favourite apples, they are truly amazing when they're fresh. I remember my sadness when they built they M25 motorway straight through the middle of my favourite PYO in the 80s.

    Irritatingly the only ones I've had from the supermarkets since taste like they've been in storage for months. Perhaps I should plant a russet tree.

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    1. NeonBright
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      The 'fresh' part is really important, too. People think of apples as fruit that lasts for a long time, but in my experience a lot of the more exotic apples lose their freshness and flavour pretty...

      The 'fresh' part is really important, too.
      People think of apples as fruit that lasts for a long time, but in my experience a lot of the more exotic apples lose their freshness and flavour pretty fast.
      Even with the more ordinary kinds the difference between an apple straight off the tree and one that has been kept for a couple of weeks is the difference between night and day.

      And others don't keep at all - my dad used to rave about the very white-fleshed 'snow apples' he ate in Germany as a kid, which were so tender and fragile that sometimes they would split as they were being picked. I can't see them ever being commercially viable, even though they tasted good.

      2 votes
  2. [2]
    AugustusFerdinand
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    Absolutely fascinating! If you'd told me there were unique and unusual tasting/looking cultivars I wouldn't have doubted you, but if you'd ask me the options for apples I wouldn't have thought of...

    Absolutely fascinating!
    If you'd told me there were unique and unusual tasting/looking cultivars I wouldn't have doubted you, but if you'd ask me the options for apples I wouldn't have thought of any of these in a thousand years.
    Adding try many interesting apples to my list of things to do in this life.

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    1. cfabbro
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      Speaking of, Weird (Fruit) Explorer recently posted about another interesting variety: FIJIAN ROSE APPLE - It Looks Ugly, But Tastes Great! Though technically it's not an "apple" (Malus fruit),...

      Speaking of, Weird (Fruit) Explorer recently posted about another interesting variety:
      FIJIAN ROSE APPLE - It Looks Ugly, But Tastes Great!

      Though technically it's not an "apple" (Malus fruit), but a Syzygium fruit. But if you're interested in learning about weird/interesting fruit, that's the channel to watch. He travels the world doing exactly that.

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