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Rowan Jacobsen

Calais resident Rowan Jacobsen's 2014 Apples of Uncommon Character features apple history, use, profiles of 123 notable apples and gorgeous photographs by Clare Barboza. Learn about star shaped apples, strawberry flavored apples, even Vermont's own Bethel apple. Check out these articles about it:

And be sure to check out Jacobsen's earlier award-winning food and environment writing in magazines and the books listed below. 

In his classic A Geography of Oysters, Rowan Jacobsen forever changed the way America talks about its best bivalve. Now he does the same for our favorite fruit, showing us that there is indeed life beyond Red Delicious-and even Honeycrisp. While supermarkets limit their offerings to a few waxy optio ... Read More about
While other books play the blame game of what went wrong on the Deepwater Horizon and who is responsible, Shadows on the Gulf offers a surprising, harder truth: As bad as the oil spill was, it doesn't touch the damage done to the Gulf every year by what one expert in the book calls "a 100-year catas ... Read More about