An Apple a Day…..

Celebrate all things apple with this week’s festive and delicious chef dishes.

We also have some fun fact to get you in the apple-tizing mood:

• 2,500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States and in all 50 states.  7,500 varieties are grown throughout the world.
• Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free.
• Apples trees take 4 to 5 years to produce their first fruit.
• Apples are a member of the rose family.
• Don’t peel.  Two-thirds of the fiber and lots of antioxidants are found in the apple peel.
• Archeologist have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apples since at least 6500 B.C.
• National Apple Month, originally founded in 1904 as Apple Week, expanded in 1996 to September- November.