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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Atlantic, New York magazine and NPR

Dazzling. Samin Nosrat, The New York Times Magazine

Inspired by twenty-six fruits, the essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural, culinary, medical, and personal history.

A is for aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for durian, endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odorpeaches, old garlic. M is for medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by gardeners for its flowers. Q is for quince, which, when fresh, gives off the scent of roses and citrus and rich women's perfume, but if eaten raw is so astringent it wicks the juice from one's mouth.

In a work of unique invention, these and other difficult fruits serve as the central ingredients of twenty-six lyrical essays (with recipes). What makes a fruit d

The Book of Difficult Fruit Arguments for the Tart Tender and Unruly with Recipes

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Publication Date: 4/6/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780374110321, 978-0374110321
      ISBN10: 0374110328

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Named a Best Book of the Year by The Atlantic, New York magazine and NPR

      Dazzling. Samin Nosrat, The New York Times Magazine

      Inspired by twenty-six fruits, the essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural, culinary, medical, and personal history.

      A is for aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for durian, endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odorpeaches, old garlic. M is for medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by gardeners for its flowers. Q is for quince, which, when fresh, gives off the scent of roses and citrus and rich women's perfume, but if eaten raw is so astringent it wicks the juice from one's mouth.

      In a work of unique invention, these and other difficult fruits serve as the central ingredients of twenty-six lyrical essays (with recipes). What makes a fruit d

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