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Article: Take your pick ; ORCHARD TO TABLE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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Few things so solidly confirm fall in New England as freshly
picked apples and the aroma of a piping hot crisp or pie. When you
spend an afternoon at an orchard or stop by a farmstand to buy
apples, the signs on the fruit often don't tell you which apples are
suited for baking and which are better eaten mouthful by mouthful.
A few varieties are particularly popular for baking and
especially plentiful in October. Many area orchards have already
started storing apples so local fruit will be available for
Thanksgiving's pie baking time.
"The varieties are peaking," says Frank Carlson, co-owner of
Carlson Orchard in Harvard. Carlson says late-season Cortlands and
Jonagolds will hold up ...