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Dan Bussey

Forgotten fruits, Chicago chefs

When I went to the Forgotten Fruits workshop up in Madison earlier this  year, one thing seemed sort of off. All the trees looked like this one. March = not exactly peak apple season. Next week, tho, RAFT brings its apple program to Chicago just as the Pippins are starting to fall from the trees. … Continued

Forgotten Fruits, part 1

Fact One: The first edition of The Nomenclature of the Apple, published by USDA pomologist W.H. Ragan in 1905, lists 6,554 uniquely named apple varieties then grown in the United States. One hundred years later Wisconsin orchard-keeper Dan Bussey, whose exhaustive history of American apples is due out in 2010, estimates the true number at … Continued