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New Day Cafe: Muscadines [1]

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Date: 2023-10-02  

Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread.

Since I picked up a buttermilk and muscadine hand pie from my favorite Raleigh bakery on Sunday, I have muscadines on my mind. Muscadines are, I believe, unique to the American South. Autocorrect doesn’t recognize the word. They are, according to the USDA, America’s first native grape.

From the USDA,

“They were as wild and untamed as the land they covered. In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh described them as being "on the sand and on the green soil, on the hills as on the plains, as well as on every little shrub ... also climbing towards the tops of tall cedars ... in all the world the like abundance is not to be found." This early English explorer had landed on the coast of North Carolina and was describing muscadine grapes, Vitis rotundifolia, the bronze or purple-black fruit that was growing profusely throughout what is now the southeastern United States. Today, more than 400 years later, scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service and Mississippi State University have even more reason to be excited about the muscadine. Research conducted by ARS horticulturist James B. Magee and Mississippi State nutritionist Betty J. Ector predicts that the muscadine will not only be an alternative crop for growers in the Southeast, but a new health food as well.”

I am skeptical that my buttermilk and muscadine hand pie is a health food,

but I love them anyway.

NPR once describe muscadines as the “best grape you’ve never tasted”: www.npr.org/…

I guess I’m lucky my North Carolina-born grandmother introduced them to me as a child.

Here are a few recipes:

This is an open thread. Please share what’s on your mind this morning.

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