Food Poetry: ‘After Apple-Picking’ by Robert Frost
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
We can always wax poetic about food, but we’re not the only ones. As a cold-weather treat, we’re offering up a dramatic reading and discussion of Robert Frost’s poem ‘After Apple-Picking’. Read the poem here: https://poets.org/poem/after-apple-picking
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:13.2 | Hello and welcome to Savor, |
| 0:14.6 | production of IHeartRadio. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Annie Reese. |
| 0:16.3 | And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum. |
| 0:17.7 | And today we have an episode for you that's a little something different, |
| 0:22.8 | because, okay, y'all know that we love food poetry, you know, poems about food. And so we wanted |
| 0:31.0 | to do a little dramatic reading for you, you know, just a little treat with a little bit of |
| 0:36.2 | discussion afterwards. And we're hoping to turn this into a little treat with a little bit of discussion afterwards. |
| 0:44.7 | And we're hoping to turn this into a little bit of a series over time. |
| 0:46.0 | Yes. |
| 0:50.5 | And this has been a long time coming, I think, like a year ago. |
| 0:51.8 | Oh, more than that. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah, this has been on our radar. Yes, because we do run into food poetry |
| 0:57.1 | on the show, and we love it. So obviously, listeners, if there is an avenue, you think we should |
| 1:05.9 | go down, let us know. Oh, yeah. It helps tremendously if the poem in question is in the public domain. |
| 1:13.6 | Definitely. Very much. We enjoy not getting sued. That is another thing we enjoy. |
| 1:21.6 | Greatly. It's a goal of mine, in fact. |
| 1:26.5 | Yes. Totally. But okay, in fact. Yes, totally. |
| 1:29.1 | But, okay, for this first one, I brought to the table a poem by Robert Frost called After Apple Picking. |
| 1:37.9 | And we are a little late in the year for apple harvesting here in the Northern Hemisphere. But the poem has a very like |
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