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The Food Show: Apples for your ear
For 12 years, The Food Show took listeners inside the food business, exploring news and trends in food production, marketing and consumption. Beginning in 1978, host Jim Wright – a former circus ringmaster – navigated through the gastronomical gamut as listeners learned all about the food business. From important news to tips on camel-milking or microwave cookery, The Food Show offered a wealth of information on anything food-related.
• Apples are the most varied food on Earth, with over 7,500 different varieties. • On average, Canadians eat 86 apples per year. • According to Statistics Canada, apples are the most valuable tree fruit crop in Canada. In 2001, cash farm receipts for apples came to $175 million. • The largest (real) apple ever picked weighed four pounds (1.8 kilograms) and was picked in Japan. The largest (fake) apple in Canada is a roadside attraction 10 meters high, found in Colborne, Ont.
Program: The Food Show
Broadcast Date: Oct. 1, 1978
Guest(s): Barbara Seeth
Host: Jim Wright
Reporter: George McNabb
Duration: 4:47
Photo: Venysia Kurniawan/Flickr Creative Commons
Last updated: January 27, 2012
Page consulted on March 26, 2013
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