{"id":2067,"date":"2007-10-01T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-156\/"},"modified":"2023-11-04T12:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T19:29:13","slug":"the-story-of-the-apple","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-story-of-the-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of the Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/StoryApple.jpg\" alt=\"The story of the apple cover\" align=\"left\" \/> The origin of this commonplace fruit has long been uncertain, but David Mabberley and co-author Barrie Juniper find answers in this fascinating story. The authors use the expected DNA analysis and other traditional botanical tools of discovery, but also geology, climatology and a study of bears and horses to identify the first home (it wasn&#8217;t Eden) of the sweet apple. But they don&#8217;t stop there. They trace the process by which the apple has become a world-wide food crop, an iconic element in the culture of many peoples, and even a &#8220;determined, effective, subversive influence&#8221; that challenges the global agribusiness complex by its ability to easily new varieties, giving hope that even a small scale orchard or wild seedling could produce the next, outstanding variety.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Fall 2007 <em>Arboretum Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origin of this commonplace fruit has long been uncertain, but David Mabberley and co-author Barrie Juniper find answers in this fascinating story. The authors use the expected DNA analysis and other traditional botanical tools of discovery, but also geology, climatology and a study of bears and horses to identify the first home (it wasn&#8217;t Eden) of the sweet apple. But they don&#8217;t stop there. They trace the process by which the apple has become a world-wide food crop, an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-story-of-the-apple\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story of the Apple<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[316,22],"class_list":["post-2067","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-malus","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}