I always tell people that they haven’t tasted real grapes unless they have had real muscat. When I was growing up we used to have muscat on our property and that thing is delicious on at any time of harvest. Even birds used to go nuts about it and for that reason we preferred to gather muscat a little earlier before the birds got to it. The grape has a really strong flavor to it and there is no way you can mistake it for something else, once you taste it you know it’s muscat!

We had a lot of great fruits on our property, good flavors, unlike the stuff you get in supermarkets that taste like nothing. We used to have a lot of great nutritious fruits and vegetables in our diet when we were kids, unfortunately at the same time we used to eat way too much meat, I mean really really way too much, and I bet many problems us, our parents and our grandparents experienced with their health were associated with this. We knew little to nothing about eating healthy, nobody really got checked for any medical conditions like diabetes or high cholesterol people do today on a regular basis. If you had some kind of pain you just waited for it to pass, only in extreme cases would people go to see doctors. I assume if my grand parents where to check their cholesterol levels their cholesterol ratio would be unacceptable for todays’ norms, which keeps me wondering how much of today’s obsession with decreasing cholesterol has actually benefited our lives, because come to think of it most of my grandparents passed away in their 80s, I sure don’t expect myself to live that long. I think it’s also possible that most of today’s food is growing in condition that keeps their nutritious value really low, almost any product that I remember as a child tasted better than they taste now. For instance we used to make eggplants on fire, the eggplants used to be thin & firm and after having them on fire most of the vegetable inside would still be in great shape. Today’s eggplants are enormously huge, however once you put them on fire you find out there’s nothing left inside, it’s like an empty shell and they taste kind of weird as well. So there you go, I’m starting to sound like my grandpa lol …the end.