It’s the apple season and I thought it appropriate to offer some recipes that are healthy and delicious! Here’s a Bok-Choy slaw that I found on the Eating Healthy website. ……

Acorn Squash is such a delicious vegetable, even children love it. Then to combine the luscious flavor of spicy apples with it makes this a winner for the whole family! ……

From the beginning of human history, the apple was a celebrated, sought after fruit. The story of Adam and Eve is the first ever mention of the apple in our history. Apples were the symbol of love and beauty in Greek and Roman mythology and around the first century B.C, the Romans conquered England and
they brought apple cultivation with them. Invaders of Switzerland captured William Tell, then gave him fame by promising his freedom if he could shoot an apple off his son’s head with an arrow.

Apple seeds and trees were being brought to the New World because The Massachusetts Bay Company had been requesting apple seeds and cuttings from England. They were brought over by early settlers on later voyages of the Mayflower. Records from The Massachusetts Bay Company indicated apples were being grown in New England as early as 1630. It was recorded that the early Europeans also brought apple stock to Virginia and the Southwest.

John McIntosh, a Canadian from Ontario, discovered a variety of apple in 1796 that is one of today’s favorite apple varieties by people around the world. We are all familiar with the McIntosh Apple!

A favorite American story tells about a pioneer apple farmer named John Chapman, from Leominster, Massachusetts. Chapman, became famous in the 1800’s when he distributed apple seeds and trees to settlers in the American states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He is now known to us as “Johnny Appleseed” and legend has it that “Johnny Appleseed” travelled barefoot wearing old torn clothes and used a tin pot for a hat! He is celebrated in American folklore as a symbol of the westward-moving expansion of the European settlers.

And a London sea captain was given seeds from an apple in 1820 that are now considered to be the origin of the largest apple crop in the U.S. in the State of Washington.

Apples are the most popular fruit in the world. Each day, people in every country enjoy eating apples.