Have you ever read Joanne Harris’ book, the “Blackberry wine”? In this wonderful book six bottles of fruit wines from the year 1975 – elderberry, damson, blackberry, raspberry, rose hip and jackapple- seem to come to life when Jay, the main character finds them in the cellar. They laugh, whisper, fizzle and make noise while…
We have four apple trees in our orchard, two golden delicious and two which are so called “winter scone”, an old Hungarian variety which has a little bit flat shape and a sour taste. I get a lot of information on our fruit trees and orchard in general from our neighbor, Tibor who knows a…
Beetroot is a vegetable which has the ability to awake strong emotions in highly positive or negative way. People normally like it or hate it. As for me, you could have driven me out of the world with beetroot until the moment I tasted my grandmother’s beetroot salad. Once I visited her, she was preparing…
Last year we arrived from Spain to Hungary exactly that time when apples were about to reach perfect ripeness. Some of the apples were already under the tree and they were continuously falling. We had many things to do in our house: scratching the drops of paint from the floor and windows, mend the broken…
