Pork Chops and Apples

"I have to admit the only time I’ve ever enjoyed the combination of meat and fruit together for dinner is at Thanksgiving. Turkey and Cranberries, the holiday wouldn’t be the same without them. Pork and Apples, have you ever wondered how this delicious combination came about? I did, so I did a little investigating. Autumn brought apples, it was also the season that pigs were butchered and put up for winter. It was natural in those days to use what you had, when you had it. I can imagine farmers wives standing in their kitchens thinking… we’ve got apples, we’ve got pork, now what am I going to do with them? What they did was create delicious dinners just like this. It seems that necessity truly is the mother of invention, and in this case culinary inventions. "