Kate Evans

Those words, oh, I could bathe in them.

And as a reader, I want it all.

Thank you.

It's great to join you and talk about apples.

Yeah, well, you know, in some parts, right?

So the apple itself, if you think about why the tree produces an apple, the whole point is for the seed to spread, right?

That's what a tree wants to do.

That's why we have an apple.

And so the evolutionary perspective of that tree is, well, you have to make the apple attractive for people to eat or for animals to eat.

So those seeds get spread.

So in the big scheme of things, then, yeah, you know, an apple is an apple.

We want to be able to eat it.

But certainly from the wild apples that were around in Europe, most of those are very small crab apple types.

And that's not what we're seeing and we want to eat.

We want something that's a little tastier than that.

Absolutely, yeah.

So the sweet apple origins are mostly from the sort of Kazakhstan area, that part of the world.

Yeah, really interestingly, the perspective is that they spread through the Silk Route, you know, that whole sort of trafficking of materials that moved across into Europe.

And that's really where we got the sweet apples from.

And still...