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  • From: "Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: "labruscagrape@lists.ibiblio.org" <labruscagrape@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [OFEX] Api experiment - Annurca (melannurca)
  • Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:40:11 -0400


Hi Biz,

This blurb caught my attention... Particulary the last line. Maybe all ancient apples would benefit by t his.

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COLDIRETTI ANNOUNCES EU RECOGNITION STOPPING
“IMITATION” ANNURCA APPLE
Rome, March 10th (Adnkronos) – The European Union has given its definite recognition to the PGI Melannurca (Apple) from Campania, which now is in the EU’s protected denomination of origin lists as a product to valorise and safeguard against imitation. This was announced by Coldiretti which also underlined that through the publication of the measure in the Official Bulletin, the annurca apple becomes a typical fruit from the Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Naples and Salerno provinces in the Campania Region, recognized in the world because it is ripened and coloured by the sun on the ground on a characteristic bed of hay.
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I wonder if your Api (Lady) apples would flavour better if you ripened in a similar manner.

To peak your curiosity Annurca apples were reputed to grow at the gates of of the hereafter, by the Romans. A nice thought, to pick a nice apple as you enter the hereafter.

Later,
Tom

Annurca (Melannurca)
The original area of this tasty fruit is the Piiteolane countryside,
which used to be famous for its fertility. It is precisely the fact
that it comes from Pozzuoli, once said to be where Hell was situated,
that Pliny the Elder, the great Roman naturalist from the first
century AD, called this apple "Mala Orcula", because it was produced
around the "Orco" (the hereafter). From here the names "anorcola" and
"annorcola" were subsequently used for local apples until 1876, when
the name "annurca" appeared officially for the first time.


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