![]() So I'm making a conscious effort to be more of an unexpected visitor and because I'm nice I'll be bringing the apple tart. I miss that, I miss the unexpected visitor. I grew up in a time when people just called, unannounced, there was not much arranging of visits, there were no text messages to arrange dates and times, people just called to see you or you just popped in, whether is was checking in on friends or bringing news, good or bad, that is just what happened and somehow there was always apple tart and tea. It reminded me of visiting family friends and cousins, it reminded me of unexpected visitors and how an apple tart always appeared on the kitchen table as if by magic. Spending time in that orchard brought me right back to being a kid in Ireland, not that we had community orchards, I grew up in the suburbs of a city, but it reminded me of the traditional Irish apple tart. Apple pies were top of the list □ It was a lovely day, we met locals walking their dogs, stopping to chat and maybe checking that we hadn't stripped the orchard bare, (sadly, that happens occasionally, we were told ) My girl was a little wary at first, reluctant to eat an apple that hadn't been washed, it didn't take long though before she was munching on an apple, choosing which ones to pick and deciding what we would do with them when we got home. Last week I was invited by a friend to take a trip to a little village outside Ely to visit a community orchard, we took the kids after school and walked through this little orchard picking apples, eating them straight from the trees. Can we go back to a time when food was about nourishment and celebration and community? It's very easy to forget this but maybe we need to remind ourselves that food has more to do with celebrating life than being a cure or a poison. But food has always had another purpose, a real down to earth purpose, a bringing of people together, for comfort in times of need or for a celebration of life. One week we are told we can eat butter the next week we can't. Food, we are told can either kill us or cure us. ![]() We are bombarded with information about food these days, especially in the news.
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