Come to think of it, apples to Apple might be a good metaphor for our economic progress over the decades.

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When you've got a tight single layer, cut the remaining apple quarters in half and strew them over the first layer. (You might have to cut more apples to get a fairly even layer here, or you might have apple quarters left over.) Don't worry about making this layer beautiful no one will see it, but it will give the finished tart a little height.

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He searches for the origins of the domestic apple in Kazakhstan to tell an evolutionary tale which explains how every eating apple in the world is a direct descendent of apples in the Tien Shan forest (the bitter taste of apple pips is cyanide, their shape adapted to slip through the guts of a marauding bear unharmed).

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It was as if a crowd, stoked into a fury with a warning about tainted apples, responded by stampeding over to the nearest apple seller to buy some more.

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