As American as hard apple cider: an immigrant food story

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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What if apples have more in common with American immigrants than they do colonial heritage?

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0:00.0	Heads up there's a curse word in this episode. It's towards the beginning of the show.
0:04.0	Okay, here we go.
0:06.0	Let's pop this bottle open.
0:08.0	Whoa!
0:10.0	This is Outside In, a show about the natural world and how we use it.
0:14.0	I'm Justine Paradise, and the other day, producer Felix Poon and I got into our studio closets
0:21.0	at a very cool 10 in the morning to start the work day with an
0:23.9	invigorating glass of hard cider.
0:27.0	Cheers.
0:28.5	Cheers.
0:29.5	No, that's really dry.
0:31.4	I like that.
0:32.4	Yeah, mine's really dry too.
0:34.0	This one has kind of has this sort of floral edge to it that doesn't
0:38.0	taste exactly like the fruit. I don't know how to describe it.
0:41.0	Yeah. I mean, I would say mine tastes like a rosé but yeah with just a
0:46.2	really subtle hint of apple. Both of our cider bottles are not like cider cans or
0:52.4	like six packs they're like wine bottles you know?
0:55.1	Well in a lot of ways cider is closer to wine than it is to beer.
1:00.0	Yeah it makes sense it's fermented from fruit too rather than grains like beer.
1:04.5	Yeah, also the taste of cider has a lot to do with where it's made. Like,
1:09.2	cider has terroir, which is this French term that most people associate with wine.
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