" ¢Â The initial domestication of grapes took seat in antiquity in what is now southern Turkey . The grape was used for a snack , certain - but it ’s master draw was the of course occur yeast in its skin , which avail it ferment to alcoholic beverage ( a fact known by baboon , who continue to delight pirating vino grapes , particularly pinot noir ! )
" ¢Â Columbus play grape vines to Haiti , and by the first Thanksgiving , the Pilgrims were already serving vino ! After that , the Virginia Assembly decree each household should institute 10 vine . Still , the best wine ended up come from the West Coast , where Spanish foreign mission had planted plentiful vines of their own .
" ¢Â grapevine are big in Japan - literally . In 2008 , a " premium " grape debut on the Nipponese grocery that resembled a tomato , and could grow to be up to 1.2 inch in diam . The cost for such a pillage ? One bunch went for 100,000 yen ( $ 910 ) .
" ¢Â Though grapes offer mountain of wellness benefit for human being , they can betoxic for dogs . grapeshot also appear to have an adversarial family relationship withmicrowaves … ( Do n’t trythisat home plate ! )
" ¢Â Grape feeling has always been popular ( so much so as to inhale alickablead as well as anapplethat is cultivated to taste like a grape vine ! ) , as is the grape fragrance , which has been tally to plenty of left thing in its time , includingtissues .
" ¢Â This one goes out to my friend Brooke , who graciously stuffed her backtalk with grapes in the mediate shoal cafeteria on a regular basis for our amusement : conform to Steve , the World’sfastest grapeshot backstop , who broke several velocity records ( television at the beginning ) to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2008 .
" ¢Â The phrase " rancid grapes" come from Aesop ’s fable " The Fox and the Grapes . "
" ¢Â One oft - overlook fact about grape is that if a glass of vino really does improveheart health … so does grape juice!Â"¢Â Steinback ’s first attack at " Grapes of ire " was a story called " The Oklahomans . " But Steinbeck ’s wife at the time , Carol , do up with the eventual title from the lyrics of " The Battle Hymn of the Republic " ( " Mine eye have seen the glory of the orgasm of the Lord ; He is trampling out the time of origin where the grapeshot of wrath are put in … " )
" ¢Â The popularity of the grape has continued to arise , and in the United States ( one of the top three grape - producing countries in the world , where grape are the most valuable yield craw ) , Americans eat up an norm of 7 to 8 pounds per person of grape each year .
" ¢Â Is " grape " your favorite flavorer ? livid grapes or ruby grapes ? When I buy a clustering of grape I eat them all almost immediately . Share your fondness for grapes and your favorite way to eat them below !
" ˜Dietribes ' appears every other Wednesday . Food photos taken byJohanna Beyenbach . You might remember that name from our mail service about hercolorful dieting .
