We love apples. And maybe boozy apples even more. That is, hard cider and even vodka distilled from apples. We recently went on a hard cider tasting tour around Ashville, North Carolina. We came back to New England with cases.

We're veteran cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough. We've published over three dozen cookbooks with several New York publishers. Check out one of our latest, THE INSTANT AIR FRYER BIBLE, here.

This episode is mostly about apples. Not eating them. Fermenting them into hard cider and distilling them into vodka. We love apples in the fall. But we drink them in the summer.

We've also got a one-minute cooking tip about caramelizing onions. And we'll tell you what's making us happy in food this week.

Here are the segments for this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE AND MARK:

[00:47] Our experiences with the growing number of cideries in the United States.

[14:26] Our one-minute cooking tip: Add a tiny bit of baking soda to the pan to make onions caramelize faster.

[15:54] Bruce's interview with Ken Wurtz of New York's Sauvage distillers, makers of UPSTATE VODKA.

[30:31] What’s making us happy in food this week? Marked-down Passover candy and dinner parties!