Comments on: Grapes and Alton Brown

By: pawsinsd

pawsinsd — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:53:00 +0000

Someone asked today if Concord grapes could be eaten raw. Yes’m, right off the vine if you’re legally picking. And they don’t have the shelf life of table grapes sent to your grocery from Chile or wherever, so when you find them, rinse and eat them. I lived next to a vineyard so at age eight I omitted the rinsing step! Oh, they taste so good. Dee

By: tdl1501

tdl1501 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:22:26 +0000

Thanks, Slim, for your correction on that. I’m a Chautauqua County gal and it steamed me that Erie Co., NY would be featured. Now it makes sense and the Empire State concedes this one to the Commonwealth. I can’t smell those grapes from here but know they’re about ready as my most visited post, How To Eat a Concord Grape, is getting a lot of hits! Please do me a favor and eat a bunch for me. Out west I have to buy the occasional bottle of Welch’s white grape juice to get a hint of what I used to eat en route to the bus stop every morning.

By: Slim

Slim — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:36:54 +0000

Actually to correct the post the commercials that Alton Brown did were recorded in Erie County, PA not Erie County NY. Erie county NY does not have very many vineyards along Lake Erie. Erie county PA does have thousands of acres of vineyards as does Chautauqua county NY.

Right now the grapes are coming in to season the smell is intoxicating.

By: pawsinsd

pawsinsd — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:50:24 +0000

Welch’s abandoned its original plant in Westfield NY and the town was devastated at the time. Dee