Blenheim Orange Blenheim Orange Blenheim Orange (Dempster's Pippin) is a cultivar of apple. It was found at Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in England in about 1740. It has been described as a cooking apple. A tailor named George Kempster planted the original kernel and the apple, known locally as Dempster's Pippin, which began to be catalogued in about 1818. It received the Banksian Silver Medal in 1820 and thereafter spread through England to Europe and America. This apple has a greenish-yellow to orange skin streaked with red. It has a distinctive nutty flavour and is excellent for cooking. Blenheim Orange does not
James Grieve (Australian translator) at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is also a member of the Emeritus Faculty (ANU), where he serves as the Obituaries Wallah. James Grieve (Australian translator) James Grieve (born 1934) is an Australian translator of French literature and an author. His translations have included scientific works, books for children and two volumes of Marcel Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" (ANU, 1982 and Penguin, London, 2002). Grieve's translated second part of Proust's 7-part "Remembrance of Things Past" is the first completely new English translation since the 1920s. There were six other translators working on the other parts,