I also know ahead of time how the apples will taste, and can adjust the amount of sugar.
People are just beginning to discover how good these old apples taste, and they want to grow their own.
The apples tasted exactly the same as when I was a boy - a dream of childhood through taste.
Some food critics say demand has flattened because apples simply do not taste as good as they once did.
This is what the apple must have tasted like when Eve took the first forbidden bite, she thought giddily.
The apples did not taste so sweet anymore.
Had the apple tasted this good to Adam?
"I understand the need for efficiency, but in the end, apples should look and taste like apples," she said.
Babushka's apples will always taste better and more real for me than apples from the supermarket.
But the researchers in Geneva take a dim view of claims that the old apples taste better.