The Pink Lady

by | Mar 18, 2011 | Featured News, Pink Lady America

This Winter’s trendy apple seems to be the Pink Lady… Remember when it was the Fuji, and before that the Granny Smith?

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By trendy, I mean that Pink Ladies are having a greater presence in supermarkets and are showing up on restaurant menus. I can think of a couple of them off the top of my head: Victoria Gastro Pub in Columbia had Pink Apple compote and another dish or two made from them, and the newly opened Abacrombie offers a salad of frisee, Pink Lady apple slices and Camembert.

The Pink Lady is a relatively new variety developed in Western Australia, a cross between… A Golden Delicious and a Lady Williams. The Pink Lady’s tart-sweet flavor isn’t much like a Golden Delicious; that must be the Lady Williams in it coming out.

I’ll have to see if Dave Reid, the owner of Reid’s at the Waverly Farmers Market, grows Lady Williams. I’ve never seen one, although he does have Pink Ladies. They’ve been around in supermarkets, too, for the past couple of years.

Up until now my favorite hybrid has been the Honeycrisp, but the Pink Lady is right up there.

For a really cutting-edge apple, look for the Sundowner. It’s the other commercially viable apple to come out of crossing Golden Delicious with Lady Williams. I’ve never seen it around either, but the Pink Lady America Web site says it’s very good.

I’m not sure what makes a particular variety the Apple of the Moment. I guess it must be an aggressive marketing campaign, although I haven’t noticed any ads for Pink Ladies. One thing that certainly helps is a good name. I’m not sure I want to eat a Cat’s Head or a Gray Stark. (Yes, both real apple varieties.)

I did learn from the Pink Lady America Web site that there is going to be a “wide range of new apples” coming to the market in the next five to ten years. I’ll have to keep an eye out for them.

The Zazzle Artist Award!

by | Feb 17, 2011 | Featured News, Pink Lady America

We have been honored and flattered to be recognized as one of the best designs for the 2011 Calendars at Zazzle. They have told us that our design “has been hand-picked as an example of creativity at its finest. Out of the billions of designs on Zazzle, yours was chosen as one of the best.” Thus for the next 2 weeks, our design will be featured on their calendars page under “Retro”

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If you haven’t taken a look at our gorgeous calendar yet, we encourage you to do so. Click here to see it! By buying one of these calendars you will be helping the National Breast Cancer Foundation also. We hope that together we can help out a good cause. Thank you!

My Pink Lady Story

by | Dec 28, 2010 | Featured News, Pink Lady America

I have been an apple lover my entire life. There has always been something about this temptingly decadent fruit. The crispness, the sweetness, the smell, I loved it all. Growing up in apple country, fall was my favorite season of all, for fall brought the apple harvest. I enjoyed going to local farms and buying apples right off the tree, as fresh as you could get them, or going to a friend’s house and strolling through her orchard, chit-chatting away and stopping occasionally to rest under a tree. At those moments we would pluck an apple from the nearest branch and enjoy one of nature’s greatest snacks. My biggest complaint about apples was always that I had to eat different types of apples to get the sweet or sour taste that I wanted at the time. I had to settle for the tongue-twistingly tart Granny smith for a sour apple or the over-sweet Gala for a sweet apple. Though I loved them both, there was just no in-between. I had the same problem when cooking, having to buy a variety of apples to achieve the right balance for my pies or applesauce. Then, I found the Pink Lady® brand apple; A perfect balance of sweet tart, with just a hint of effervescence. Not only was this amazing apple the prefect snacking apple, satisfying both my preference for sweet and sour, but it was also an amazing cooking apple! It held up perfectly when cooking and didn’t require buying more than one type. Since finding the Pink Lady® I have rarely strayed from it. It has become a favorite in my home, enticing even my husband, who never liked apple, to love it.

– Crystal Armstrong

We Want to hear from you!

by | Dec 19, 2010 | Featured News, Pink Lady America

Do you have a favorite Pink Lady® recipe? Is there one you use that is a hit every time? Would you like to share your recipe with the world?  Do you have a favorite Pink Lady® story, a testimonial, or just a comment in general? We want to know!

For recipes: We would love to share your recipe here on our web site! All you need to do is send your recipe, along with a photo of the finished product to pla.crystal@gmail.com. Once your recipe and photo is received, we will post it here on our site!

Testimonials, stories or comments: Send your story or comment to pla.crystal@gmail.com. We will post it in the blog section of our site.

We here at Pink Lady America look forwarding to hearing from you!