Apple- Daily Object Writing- Feb 3rd
Feb 2nd, 2010 | By admin | Category: Daily WritingA is for apple, a billion children’s books say it is so, they’re a funny thing- they have a bipolar personality hard on the outside- solid, but a bite takes you to a core of dissolving goodness. Munch and crunch – teeth trampoline over the offcut grinding it down to pulp for the tummy. Another bite – the tang of sweet juices fills nose and mouth as the compactus shreds down the flesh and bone again. Best baked in apple crumble. Crumble – a beard of finely rubbed flour, sugar and butter that’s been tormented by a ruthless moderate oven. Apple underneath turned to a pliant spongy goo. Sensational with dollops of ice cream arriving at the portal of your mouth, that combination of crunchy covering and slushy sludgy apple and dribbling ice cream. Yeah.
Orchards in far away places like Shepparton and Mildura, where fruit falls in Newtonian certainty or is whisked and cut with automated machinery, and packed into waxy boxes in cardboard cuppings. Transported to supermarkets and fruit and veg shops all over. Sat between the lemons and the oranges. Oranges and lemons say the bells of st.Clemens sings out from my childhood.
