Good evening!
Can you believe that it's already December?
Last week, we received a winter gift 
from Nagano...
The "Fuji Apple"is not only the most popular apple in Japan,
but is now very popular all around the world.
The "Fuji Apple" is not named after Mt. Fuji
, as many people think, but rather after a place in Aomori Prefecture, famous for its apples.
This Japanese apple has American parents - the Red Delicious and Ralls Janet, an heirloom apple that goes back to Thomas Jefferson in 1793. The Fuji was "born" in 1952 in Japan and introduced into the United States in the 1980s.
The Japanese like their apples to be bigger and extremely sweet! Japanese like the apple to be fully rippened so that you can see the "honey-like" sugar in the apple.
"An apple a day, keeps the doctor away..."
I am definitely going to start eating one everyday!
1日1個のリンゴを食べれば医者はいらない
Enjoy!