Borderlines: Rotten apples and sour grapes - Telegraph RSS . Britain's No. It was a good question, for the Asian pear that I grow, Pyrus pyrifolia 'Shinseiki', has masses of attractive, round, yellow fruit but they are gritty in texture, watery rather than juicy, and absolutely not in the same stratosphere of taste as a 'Comice' or even a 'Beth' It was a good question, for the Asian pear that I grow, Pyrus pyrifolia 'Shinseiki', has masses of attractive, round, yellow fruit but they are...

I joined her at the Bellevue store recently, glad to shake the hand that knows the fruit that rolls around in my fridge. But there is an urgency to farming; a willingness to do what it takes to keep the crop in people's kitchens and your name on their tongues. You can find her most afternoons, brandishing her Global knife ("The best, man") and an innate sense of the power of produce. She rolled out a cutting-board-topped cart from the store's back room, grabbed an apple from the bin and...

The proposer would propose an offer of raisins to the responder by partially pulling out a tray of raisins as far as he could. In each version of this mini-ultimatum game, the proposer could pull one tray with 8 raisins for himself and 2 for the other (an unfair split that people routinely reject) If the responder accepted the division of raisins, he would pull the tray the rest of the way and the two would be able eat. In a study reported in Science on October 5th, the researchers...

Wednesday: Cheese pizza, pepperoni pizza, munchables with pickle, veggie dippers with ranch dressing, fruit. Thursday: Ham-and-cheese pocket, barbecue on bun, corn on the cob, Texas-style baked beans, fruit. Friday: Shrimp poppers or chicken rings, potato nuggets, tossed salad with dressing, fruit yogurt. Monday: Chicken nuggets or fish sticks, broccoli and cheese, fresh roll, fruit. Tuesday: Soft tacos or baked potato, charro beans, lettuce and tomatoes, fruit. Mustang lady Protect and...

Valley also said fruit afflicted with the virus is less profitable because it is usually sold for processing rather than at a fresh market. Dennis Wolff, secretary of the state Department of Agriculture, announced this week that the state found no new cases of the virus for the first time since it began testing eight years ago. The state required trees, including decorative versions of stone-fruit plants found at homes rather than in orchards, to be removed and destroyed in areas found...