But apple orchards have disappeared from many former apple-growing regions, replaced by housing developments or by more profitable, glamorous crops, like wine grapes.
There's something so glamorous about being in the wine business, and there is perhaps something unglamorous about being in the jerky business.
"Wine is a glamorous business," says Michael Welsh, a fund manager with Harris Associates in Chicago and a specialist in global small-cap companies.
Featuring four days and nights of winery dinners, interactive seminars, gala wine tastings and glamorous after-parties, Cornucopia lets you truly savor the wealth of Whistler's fine dining establishments, as well as mix it up with acclaimed chefs, sommeliers and restaurateurs visiting Whistler.
Fluffy pillows, wine, Pepsi-Cola and glamorous couples enjoying recreational activities are featured; a materialistic lifestyle beyond the reach of most Yugoslavs is cheerfully encouraged.
Yes, the fabled service is in place and the menu made up largely of glamorous dishes (with a punchily priced wine list to match), but it's like being in a reliable, neighbourhood place, not a stellar showstopper.
This collection had a great range of wearable clothes that incidentally were glamorous, like a collarless wrap coat in wine-berry patent leather and a sleeveless blouse in cerulean blue crepe worn with a red crepe pencil skirt.
This style – with its graceful cut-outs but maximum coverage – is a neat trick that plays to the things every woman wants when sinking back their 406th mulled wine of the season: to look glamorous, pulled-together and warm.
It's tempting to say "soup" instead of "haze," since the setup is five glamorous women talking about life and love and art as they drink wine and make soup in a chicly retro kitchen (designed by Noelle Ginefri).
