tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642877353447529292.post831834660508508457..comments2023-10-26T19:29:14.271-07:00Comments on Capital Taps: Fine Beer in Salem Oregon: Old-Timey Apples Elicit Plea from Slow FoodCapital Tapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04125494106287929220noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642877353447529292.post-9531345228212931372011-04-14T12:53:18.086-07:002011-04-14T12:53:18.086-07:00Information! From The Columbian, October 2010:
&...Information! From <a href="http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/03/a-day-for-an-apple-living-link-to-the-kitchens-of/" rel="nofollow">The Columbian, October 2010</a>:<br /><br />"The English Greening Apple tree dates back to the Hudson’s Bay Company, and is so much older than most other apple trees that a Seattle arborist with the National Park Service is interested in taking genetic samples from it, Vancouver Urban Forester Charles Ray said.<br /><br />“They want to know why it’s so vigorous and really keeps producing,” Ray said.<br /><br />Make no mistake: The tree is a freak of nature, in a good way.<br /><br />Most apple trees in orchards live for 30 years, Ray explained. It’s the oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest to be sure, if not the West, he said.<br /><br />The tree still produces apples, which work best for baking, he said. A pie made with fruit from the tree placed in the top three in a local competition last year, Ray noted."<br /><br />Articles give dates circa 1825.<br /><br />Here's <a href="http://www.columbian.com/news/2011/apr/12/old-apple-tree-preserving-life-and-limb-orchardist/" rel="nofollow">a more recent piece</a> on its tree surgery.Capital Tapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04125494106287929220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642877353447529292.post-84771856705306719672010-11-29T22:34:33.801-08:002010-11-29T22:34:33.801-08:00Love tastings like that! Apples, tomatoes, peache...Love tastings like that! Apples, tomatoes, peaches...but we're in winter now. Sad.<br /><br />Here's an apple for you. The imagery is so pacific NW! And she's reading on Weds - will cue up a beer poem, as well.<br /><br /><a href="http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/poetry/poemoftheweek/river_sonnet/" rel="nofollow">River Sonnet</a><br />by Keetje Kuipers<br /><br />When the old she-salmon swam to my rock<br />where I had sat to watch her moldering<br />transform into a fruiting body, clock<br />of flesh stretched above pale pebbles, ticking<br />tail where her roe lay like scattered apple<br />blossoms the rain has adhered to the road<br />and her great heaving sides stained with the dull<br />flowering shapes of fungus, I could not know<br />what secret pain it took for her to nose<br />against the current there, the large head scarred,<br />flanks those of a barnacled ship: she rose<br />from shallow water, a calcified shard<br />bearing time’s white etchings, and one dark eye—<br />lidless—that willed I mark her drifting by.Capital Tapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04125494106287929220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5642877353447529292.post-14653059090258137212010-11-29T20:03:51.123-08:002010-11-29T20:03:51.123-08:00I was at an apple tasting at the Portland Nursery ...I was at an apple tasting at the Portland Nursery at the end of October and tasted maybe 40 odd varieties of apples, all delicious, all distinct, some were complete knockouts. Don't ask me which, I have the list somewhere I'm sure, but they made Red Delicious look like Red Disgusting (as if it didn't already).Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11927529132499597341noreply@blogger.com