The Apple: A Delicious History

Sally Coulthard, bestselling author of A Short History of the World According to Sheep, tells the 10,000-year story of the apple in crisp and sparkling style.

‘Crisp and refreshing’ Pen Vogler, The Spectator

Sin, cider and apple crumble the 10,000-year story of the worlds most tempting fruit.
The Apple: A Delicious History takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, from the apples prehistoric beginnings in the Tian Shan mountains of Kazakhstan to the explosion of commercial apple-growing in twenty-first-century China. Zigzagging across the centuries and straddling the globe, Sally Coulthard explores how the apple travelled along the Silk Road from Central Asia to Europe, appearing as an erotically charged symbol in Greek myth and poetry and even featuring in the shopping list of a senior Roman officer stationed on Hadrians Wall. She samples the cider that flowed from the emp