Apple

Pomme

What it is

Every apple on Earth descends from wild forests near Almaty — a city whose name means “father of apples”. Traders carried seeds down the Silk Road, and humanity has since named more than seven thousand varieties.

In the kitchen

Firm, tart apples hold their shape in the pan; sweet ones collapse into sauce. A knob of butter and cinnamon suits them all.

Goes with

Cinnamon Butter Pork Sage Walnut Blue cheese Celery Maple syrup

Same species

Calvados Mostarda di Mantova Rapid-set apple pectin Chantecler apple Reinette grise du Canada apple

Also used with

Acacia honey Ascorbic acid Malic acid Smoked eel Appenzeller Balsam poplar buds

In season alongside

Pomodorino del Piennolo del Vesuvio Baek-kimchi Begonia petals Bell pepper Bettarazuke Carrot

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