Side Dish

In today’s episode, we embrace fall with a discussion about Eunie’s favorite fruit: apples. We analyze apple motifs, including Apple Inc. and in the Garden of Eden. We also share how we will consume apples this season and name our favorite types.

Special No. 1: Crab apples are the only apples native to America.
Source: University of Illinois

Special No. 2: Apples were called “winter banana” in colonial times.
Source: University of Illinois

Special No. 3: In ancient times in Europe, girls would mark apples before boys bobbed for them. Whoever bobbed the apple marked by a girl would be her future love.
Source: NPR

Special No. 4: Apples are part of the rose family.
Source: University of Illinois

Eunie enjoyed a delicious salted caramel apple pie at Dominique Ansel’s Pie Night this year.

Once upon a time, I wanted to go to #DAKPieNight with @bunbuncookie, @rllrz and @erikwang21 but @resy betrayed me and crashed so I could only book one ticket Cheers to dining ALONE amongst a sea of couples and the kind lady who took my picture here

A post shared by Eunie Kim (@eunie.kim) on Sep 20, 2018 at 6:05pm PDT

Grub Street believes apple cider donuts fail to live up to their name. Most are heavy on cinnamon but light on cider.

Apple motifs discussed in this episode

• Apple Inc.
• Apples and teachers
• The forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Our favorite types of apples

• Eunie: Golden Delicious
• JuJu: Honeycrisp

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Theme music: “Enthusiast” by Tours, edited and used under CC BY 3.0 license.