Or a strain of weed. Maybe it's the masochist in me, ... Red Delicious brought a quick injection of mental euphoria, which seems too strong for the first twenty or minutes or so.

Consider the fate of America’s favorite apple. It emerged from an Iowa orchard in 1880 as a round, blushed yellow fruit of surpassing sweetness. But like a figure in a TV makeover show, it was ...

In the 1980s heyday of the Red Delicious, it represented three-quarters of the harvest in Washington state, epicenter of the apple industry. By 2000, it made up less than half, and in 2003, the ...

Dozens of strains of Red Delicious have been developed by breeders since the original appeared in Madison County, Iowa, though only a handful are widely used.

The apple I handed my daughter was no ordinary Red Delicious. She was about to sink her teeth into more than a hundred years of history. Red Delicious — the kind you see at the supermarket ...

The Red Delicious was first discovered by a farmer named Jesse Hiatt, who stumbled upon a unique looking apple tree growing in his Peru, Iowa, orchard. That tree produced a “delicious, ...

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In 1944, Anna died. Soon after, William, then 76, sold the farm and moved to Des Moines to retire, and that’s where my family’s relatively brief stewardship of the first Red Delicious apple ...

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The maligned Red Delicious apple once was Washington state’s No. 1 apple crop. To some, “Reds” had their taste bred out. But they’re still here, tied at No. 2.

Then, stir in equal parts red wine and boiling water, a splash of orange and/or lemon juice, and a long squeeze of honey. Fine strain into a toddy or coupe glass to serve.