This is the November 2007 edition of the SocialEats General Newsletter. This is where you hear news about SocialEats, press releases and any changes about the site or how SocialEats does business. This newsletter is sent about once a month.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I hope everyone gets a great meal with freinds and family and plenty of leftovers for creative reheater meals all next week.

A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER - Found treasure!

My family owns some property in upstate New York. Before I was born, my parents bought several acres of unused farm land midway between Saratoga and Lake George. As they were both city kids, they purchased the land as a rural getaway, complete with a very run down 100 year old farmhouse and overgrown fields.

I've been going there since I was born and over the years we have rented the land to local farmers to put horses and cows out there for grazing - mainly so that when we go up there, we can see the animals in the field. Knowing the farmers up there allowed my brother an I to have the opportunity to learn to milk cows at young age and occasionally get a free pony ride from our neighbors - but that's for a different story.

Recently my brother and sister-in-law were hiking on the property in one of the more difficult to reach fields (the one where you have to climb over a barb wire fence, brave a steep hill and cross a muddy stream) and found an old apple tree. Expecting crab apples and with low expectations, my brother took a bite. It was an incredibly gnarly looking, but delicious tasting apple. Upon further inspection, he found maybe a dozen more apple trees (Cortlandt, Northern Spy & Golden Delicious) and a Seckel pear tree - all of them equally gnarly looking but superbly tasting. And to imagine that the only people who knew about this orchard, were the cows and horses that were set out to graze there for the past 30 years.

Next year, we may start a project to trim the trees, clear a path, and build a bridge so that we can get to the apples and manage the health of the orchard. And then I'll be featuring "heirloom" apples in pies, sauces and anything else I can think of. Until then, hit your local farmers market and get some apples before the season ends, and enjoy those apples - no matter how weird they look.

Eat well!
Ben
Founder and Creator of SocialEats

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