Ontario Fruit Explorers

["Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>]

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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