An Apple A Day
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- October
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For a person who hadn’t seen an apple orchard until last month, my mom’s always been a big believer in the maxim, An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
There was hardly a day when she didn’t pack an apple in my school lunch box. So much so that I earned the nickname “apple girl” from a classmate’s dad.
But the apples we ate in Mumbai didn’t grow locally. They came from three mountainous states with temperate climates in northern India.
So when we went apple picking last month to one of our neighborhood orchards, my mom turned into more of a kid than my kids.
She gasped at the sight of the low-hanging fruit, and then proceeded to compete with her grandchildren to pluck the red McIntosh apples.
When I began taking pictures, she dove into the ground and lay flat on her back, stretching her hand ever so slightly, to pick the fruit.
Sanjana and Krishna looked puzzled by their Granny’s apple madness, but they were too busy filling their bags to the brim to comment.
After three weeks of happy munching, we are finally back to adding apples to our grocery list.
My mom, meanwhile, is still basking in her afternoon’s worth of sweet autumn memories.
Photo Credit: Peter Carr/The Journal News
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on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm by Swapna Venugopal.
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That’s one of the great things about New York, all the apple orchards. Glad your mom had such a good time; you can keep her busy tasting all the different kinds of apples besides macs. We love ida reds, fujis, granny smiths, etc. In our family, the first weekend in November is dedicated to making a bunch of apple pies (the apples we like to use aren’t picked until the last couple of days in october).
Thanks, Tracey! My mom will definitely be up for another trip:-)
Why don’t u suggest u’r mom to make some apple pie & apple punch for the apple of her eye?