An apple menagerie
July 13, 2011
On its house Flickr account, W.W. Norton (my publisher) has published a full grid of all the 59 apple variety portraits that we photographed for the book. It was quite a feat getting all that fruit into the studio at the same time—especially since the photo shoot happened in November and some of the apples we shot had come into season in August. One particularly desperate call for Gravensteins persuaded farmer Gene Calvi at K&K Orchard in Sebastopol, CA to kindly dig out a few stragglers from his own personal stash.
I can’t seem to reproduce the grid here in WordPress, but here’s a long line of apples. I’ll annotate when I have some time…
But the result? Heavenly. Thanks to Squire Fox for taking such beautiful portraits.
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Amy Traverso
Amy. Which is a windsor? And do you have any idea whom first made the dessert ‘Apple Windsor’ ? I wonder if its amed after the poles or the royal line? If you know the history of the apple, the dates might help to solve this mystery….
Hello there! I haven’t been able to find much information about Apple Windsor, but I notice that it looks very similar to Swedish Apple Pie (also called Norwegian Apple Pie) that is in my book. Basically, you put apples in a cake pan and cover them with a rich cake batter. Given the popularity of these “pies” in the upper Midwest, my guess is that they represent an Americanization of some traditional Scandinavian recipe. I need to investigate this further, and see if I can find the link to Apple Windsor.