Being American by birth, I get to participate in Independence Day even as I live an ex-pat life. You know us Americans, we're nothing if not entitled...
I declare my independence from guilt at not writing for so long. It's been a rocky road at work for these past few weeks and I simply haven't felt very sociable. I'm still eating and it still tastes good, so all is not lost. I could go for some rocky road ice cream right now, as a matter of fact.
Instead, I'll have muesli with a handful of these beautiful babies (above) from the garden. Turns out they aren't raspberries, but rather, loganberries.
The loganberry is generally thought to be derived from a cross between the European red raspberry cultivar 'Red Antwerp' and the American blackberry cultivar 'Aughinburgh'. It was accidentally created in 1880 or 1881 in Santa Cruz, California, by the American lawyer and horticulturist James Harvey Logan (1841-1928). In the 1880s, berry growers began to cross varieties to obtain better commercial varieties. Logan was unsatisfied with the existing varieties of blackberries and tried to cross two varieties of blackberries to produce a superior cultivar.
While attempting to cross two varieties of blackberries, Logan accidentally planted them next to an old variety of red raspberry, all of which flowered and fruited together.
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