The best late summer apples to use for cooking are Gravensteins, Lodis, Cortlands, Galas, and Ginger Golds. Apples go well in both sweet and savory dishes. A favorite European combination is fried apples with pork. Here in America, of course, we have the pie. Look for apples in such summer dishes as fruit salads, cole slaw, chilled soups, and fresh apple tarts.
Most shoppers think only of green seedless when they look for grapes.
But there are many kinds of grapes, and very often the ones with seeds have the best flavor. The late summer is just the beginning of grape season. Look for dark red Cardinals, blue-black Buffalos, golden Thompson Seedless, and the amber Interlaken Seedless. There are three different types of grapes. American bunch grapes and muscadine grapes are both native to the North America.