I wait for this moment all year: peak apple season. Apple cider Yankee Candle has been purchased. Apple hand wash from Bath & Body Works stands proudly at the sink. (I’m not even exaggerating; if you entered my home right now you would know these facts to be true.) And as usual, I’m purchasing more apples than I know…
The U.S. Apple Association is projecting that the Gala apple will overtake the Red Delicious apple as the most popular American apple of all the apples this year, and it is about damn apple time.
As far as anybody can tell, the origin of American schoolchildren giving an apple to the teacher cannot be traced to one definitive moment or source. The tradition seems to have been born from practicality, then nurtured by happy coincidences working in concert sometime between 1880 and 1920, with an early-19th…
Today’s WTF moment: A woman is being fined $500 for carrying her in-flight snack from Delta—an apple—with her off of her flight. BBC News and other outlets are reporting this morning that Crystal Tadlock, flying from Paris to New York, wanted to save the in-flight snack for her connecting flight to Denver. She even…
