Oh, hello, it's that landscape artwork you made at a paint and sip event six years ago alleyward and hey, it's fall

It's creepy. It's spooky. It's apples. Listen. Okay, we've got scarier subjects coming up this month

But I thought after our two-parter on which culture we needed to lace up our worn-up leather boots

We're a scarf even though it's too hot for it head to an imaginary orchard to chat with someone who's about to narrate

Every apple experience you have for the rest of your life. I love her

So she's a professor at the School of Integrative Plant Science

Horticulture at Cornell University. She got a bachelor's and a master's in plant science and a PhD in genetics and now leads

Cornell's apple breeding program one of the largest fruit breeding programs in the world and we're gonna get to it

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In fact, this pod highlights that nerds are thrilling diverse sexy wholesome and quirky Georgie and the rest of us big dorks

Thank you for those reviews. We are all of those things and those reviews really make my day and they help the podcast so much

I read them all so keep them coming. Okay, pommology. It's a real word and it's a discipline

And yeah, it comes from the Latin palm for fruit and it can be applied to the whole branch of botany that involves edible things

But pommology is typically used when talking about apples and this expert is is knowledgeable and is charming as they come

So get ready for apple picking tips genetic mashups taste test requirements tart versus sour versus astringent wild apples versus

domesticated recipe tips

Oxidation anticipation and frustration in the nation DNA trivia compost treasurer's maggot babies the animal dung that changed history

How to have your own orchard the sweet sweet taste of scientific redemption keeping doctors away the loudest apple crunch on record

And what you're actually tasting when you enjoy this feat of breeding with professor fruit geneticist and

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