One of the more pleasant Ryder Cup stories belongs to Frank McClelland, owner and head chef of L'espalier on Gloucester Street in Boston.
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Even though espaliers require a watchful eye and a bit more care than basic fruit trees, I've already started a file on apple recipes.
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Its pleasing, very lightly salted taste is becoming increasingly popular beside artisanal breads in top restaurants like Mistral, Maison Robert, and L'Espalier.
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At L'Espalier, a restaurant in the Back Bay, the number of gift certificates sold during the holidays has tripled over the last 10 years.
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Although some espalier practitioners might cheat by dragooning branches that are too high or too low to the level that they want, Thevenot will hear none of it.
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On the north wall of the house is a specimen of " Ginkgo biloba ", the Chinese maidenhair tree, trained as an espalier since 1987.
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But on a trip to Mount Vernon in the early 1990s, he discovered several robust pear and apple cordons, a subtype of espalier trained as a living fence.
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Additionally, there are also new regulations for planting under the DOCG system with new vineyards needing to be trained using Espalier systems with at least 4000 vine per hectare.
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At L'Espalier, chef-owner Frank McClelland offers roasted wild striped bass with a red rice crust accompanied by a salsify, fingerling potato, and leek salad.
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Fruit trees were first pruned flat against walls in a form of topiary now known as espalier, and as time progressed, various other trained shapes were devised or rediscovered.
