What The Reviewers are Saying

• Browning has produced an interesting and readable book on apples, which he rhapsodically calls "the hardiest, most resilient and most diverse fruit on the earth".
  --Salon

• This is a book, like John McPhee's Oranges, that is often as exquisite as its subject.
  --Eli's Vinegar Factory Market News

• This is a cutting-edge book that dares the aspiring culinary historian to seek out not only the wealth of knowledge accumulated by the world's horticulturists and geneticists but also to appreciate that the earth and its mysteries can be a writer's most treasured resource.
  --Book Magazine

• The author tackles the apple in all its guises--mythopoetic, biological, historical, commercial--and comes away with a winner.
  --Kirkus Reviews

• Anyone who plans to go apple-picking this fall should pick up a copy of "Apples." Browning shows that apples offer endless ways to delight not only the palate but the mind.
  --Chicago Sun Times

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