The Iconic Fruit America Invented, Popularized, Then Promptly Forgot

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The Iconic Fruit America Invented, Popularized, Then Promptly Forgot
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Mysterious, misunderstood, and wholly underrated, the Concord is as delicious as it is fascinating.

When I was growing up, my family would often travel to Korea, the country of my heritage. Each time, my sister and I gleefully looked forward to getting our hands on the things we couldn’t easily get anywhere else—fruit especially. We feasted on Korean melon, persimmons, Asia n pears, and what we thought of as “Korean grapes.”

Recently, my boyfriend’s parents showed us around their magnificent garden in Staten Island. They had footlong gourds, fig trees, a wall of tomato plants, and, to my shock, Korean grapes. It turns out these grapes—which account forof Korea’s grape production —are not Korean at all but American. A hybrid of the iconic Concord grape.

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