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Yesterday I bought some really good cooking apples that were grown locally. This part of Virginia and especially the nearby Shenandoah Valley were historically important suppliers of apples to the rest of the country. The Albemarle Pippin is as local as you can get here in Albemarle County. I do not remember the name of the apples, but they were not pretty in the grocery store sense of the word. Most of the local apples are smallish and multicolored, with tones ranging from yellow to green to… Continue