The apple is an edible fruit that is shaped like a globe.
The fruit produced by the apple tree is called an apple . This is a tree from the Rosaceae group, with thick branches, simple leaves and umbel flowers.
The apple is an edible fruit . It is shaped like a balloon, a little sunken at its ends. Its epicarp is greenish or yellowish and has small seeds , protected by a leathery endocarp.
Types of apples
There are thousands of varieties of apples. Among the most popular are the Golden Delicious , the Granny Smith , the Royal Gala and the McIntosh . Red apples and green apples are the best known, although yellow apples also exist.
Amino acids, pectins, sugars, fiber, iron, calcium and magnesium are some of the components of this food that can be ingested in multiple ways. The apple can be eaten raw, in compote or as part of different recipes (in cake or pie, as puree, in cookies, etc.).
Apple juice is also a drink consumed throughout the world. In addition, cider , an alcoholic beverage, is made with its fermentation.
Apples can be green, red or yellow.
The term in culture
It is important to mention that the apple has great cultural relevance. This is the "forbidden fruit" that tempted Adam and Eve , for example.
Also about the resource used by Snow White 's stepmother to poison her and about Isaac Newton 's inspiration to develop the law of universal gravitation.
The apple in urban planning
A block, on the other hand, is an urban sector that is usually square and delimited by four streets, one on each of its sides. The apples are used for construction.
The city of New York , in the United States , is also known by the nickname The Big Apple , although curiously many citizens do not call it that frequently. The popularity of this nickname arose in the 1920s through sportswriter John Joseph Fitzgerald .
Origin of New York nickname
Thanks to the research work of Barry Popik and Gerald Cohen , an etymologist and a university professor respectively, at the beginning of the 21st century the history of this nickname , which until then had remained in the realm of myths and confusion, began to be clarified. One of the most absurd theories said that it came from the nickname of a brothel madam who was called "Eva."
It was precisely John J. Fitzgerald who first referred to New York City as The Big Apple in a New York Morning Telegraph article related to horse racing , and later explained that he had heard it from the grooms. New Orleans block to refer to the New York Hippodrome. The impact it generated on the journalist led him to adopt it in his column.
Already almost in the 1930s, the city's journalists used this nickname in any context, beyond equestrian. In fact, its use transcended the scope of journalism; For example, a song called The Big Apple was published and jazz musicians referred to the city in this way because they claimed that "the tree of success " has "many apples", but none as big as New York .
Although it lost popularity and was considered outdated during the 1960s, the nickname regained visibility thanks to a tourism campaign carried out by the Convention and Tourism Bureau , which is currently called NYC & Company , which He used it to refer to the city . As time went by, more and more people adopted it in different areas. In 1997, for example, the famous corner of West 54th Street and Broadway was nicknamed "the corner of the Big Apple."