Juice Recipe: Bosc pear, apple and carrot

He never imagined we would end up here. Back in the early 1800s, when Mr. Bosc, the then Director of the Paris Botanical Garden, planted a pear seed imported from Belgium, which grew into a fruit he obviously named after himself, the last thing in his mind was that hundreds of years later, you would be passing his fruit through a masticating press.

He could imagine it as pie filling, marmalade, jams, in delicate patisseries, adorning gourmet food.

But squeezed, crunched and crushed? Never! His precious creation, pear-shaped, yes, but beloved testimonial to his agricultural devotion, now trickling out of your juicer.

Oh well. Don’t feel bad. Little acts of disrespect are often at the start of amazing endeavors, like naming a fruit after yourself.