Some Red Delicious are more delicious than others

The apple I handed my daughter was no ordinary Red Delicious. She was about to sink her teeth into more than a hundred years of history. Red Delicious — the kind you see at the supermarket — is one of the leading commercial apple varieties in the world. But this particular piece of fruit was something else: the original Red Delicious. And it’s rare today.

By: By Lee Reich, Associated Press, The Jamestown Sun