Ocupation: Author
Life: b. February 6, 1955
Birthday: February 6
Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)
source: Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.44, Random House
topic: Sweet, Wind, Apples, Cider, Apple Cider