With beautiful Fall weather upon us it is the perfect time to go apple picking. But once you've got all those apples, what to do? Sure you can eat them, but you'll often still have quite a few left over. No problem. When life gives you apples, make applesauce!
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When Life Gives You Apples, Make Applesauce
Will The LES Pie Eating Contest Turn Into A Barf-O-Rama?
Word is the Lower East Side BID has got themselves nine professional eaters and three amateurs for their annual Apple Day Pie Eating Contest, going down later this month! Get there by 2 p.m. on Sunday the 18th to watch a possible record-breaking performance from these champions, three of whom will go home with a few hundred bucks. For eating pies! Let's hope it doesn't turn into a barf-o-rama, but if it does, send us your photos or tag them "Gothamist" on Flickr! We'll post them around lunchtime on the 19th.
Imports From China: Applesauce Conspiracy Afoot!
If Connecticut is the land of steady habits, and California is the land of milk and honey, then New York is certainly the land of the (big) apple: apples are our state fruit, apple muffins are our state muffin, and everyone here is really rooting for Fiona Apple to make another record. But according to Crain's, there's an apple conspiracy afoot, and it involves one of Glenn Beck's arch-enemies: China!
Big Apple Gets First Public Orchard
This afternon the Newtown Pippin Restoration and Celebration is planting NYC's first public access apple orchard! It will consist of 40 trees right on Randall's Island, and according to this Facebook page the Parks Department is in the know... but it's been a day and they haven't responded to our request for comment, or more information, or anything. So what we do know is that the trees are included in the MillionTreesNYC program, and they should have their first fruits by... 2015, with a full harvest by 2020. It is then that the orchard will be open to the public, and according to the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, "paddlers and rowers will be able to land, stroll over to pick fruit, and continue on their way." Just 10 years away, folks!
How You Like Them Apples?
Viral videos are okay when they're for a good cause, right? City Harvest has a pretty neat one out where the star of the show is... the apple! Take a look:
Make Your Own Salad... in Central Park?
Would you eat something growing in Central Park? One blogger recently took Wildman Steve Brill's foraging tour (check out our interview with him) and found plenty of edible plants in the area.
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