As police crack down on social problems such as binge drinking, how can a small artisan cider maker take cider away from the streets and back onto the restaurant table? The humble apple - and cider, one of it's most pleasurable products lie at the heart of a new politics of food activism while the decline of the British apple orchard reveals a much wider significance to our understanding of food, politics and the way we live.
The apple has become a contested political symbol of rural Britain versus the need to keep up with mass markets, and as the policing of pleasure incre...
How does the decline of the British apple orchard have wider significance to our understanding of food, politics and the way we live? And why it is so...