The Apple: A Delicious History

The Apple: A Delicious History takes readers on a journey from the apple's prehistoric beginnings to its commercial growth in China, exploring its cultural and culinary significance across the centuries. It includes recipes and stories, making it a perfect gift for gardeners and nature lovers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 01 August 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Apple: A Delicious History is a captivating journey through the 10,000-year history of the world's most tempting fruit. Author Sally Coulthard takes readers on a zigzagging adventure, exploring the apple's prehistoric origins in the Tian Shan mountains of Kazakhstan, its commercial boom in twenty-first-century China, and its historical significance across the centuries. The book traces the apple's journey along the Silk Road, from Central Asia to Europe, and its appearance as an erotically charged symbol in Greek myth and poetry. Coulthard also delves into the cider that flowed from Charlemagne's orchards in the early Middle Ages and the crispness of the yellow sweeting, the first new apple variety to be cultivated in seventeenth-century America. She uncovers why, despite the existence of over 7500 varieties of apple, only a handful of cultivars are available in modern supermarkets. The book is amplified by mouth-wateringly appley recipes and the stories behind them, making it the perfect gift for gardeners, nature lovers, and anyone who enjoys a drop of cider or a slice of apple pie.

Weight: 470g
Dimension: 146 x 224 x 35 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803287966