Apple : A Delicious History

Sin, cider and apple crumble. This is the 10,000-year story of the world's most tempting fruit. Sally Coulthard takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, from the apple's prehistoric beginnings in the Tian Shan mountains of Kazakhstan to the explosion of commercial apple-growing in twenty-first-century China. She explores how the apple travelled along the Silk Road from Central Asia to Europe and discovers why, despite the existence of more than 7500 varieties of apple, only a handful of cultivars are available in modern supermarkets.