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Book of Difficult Fruit : Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly With Rec...
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN
- 9781250829474
- Book Title
- Book of Difficult Fruit : Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (With Recipes)
- Publisher
- Picador
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Cooking, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
- Topic
- Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, Specific Ingredients / Fruit, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
- Item Weight
- 11.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
125082947X
ISBN-13
9781250829474
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11050082484
Product Key Features
Book Title
Book of Difficult Fruit : Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (With Recipes)
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, Specific Ingredients / Fruit, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Publication Year
2022
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Cooking, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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Synopsis
"[A] glorious mash-up of memoir, love note, and cookbook . . . Every sentence is as sensuous as the first bite into a cold, juicy plum." --Hillary Kelly, Vulture "[A] dazzling, thorny new essay collection." --Samin Nosrat, The New York Times 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 odor--peaches, 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 difficult? Its cultivation, its harvest, its preparation, the brevity of its moment for ripeness, its tendency toward rot or poison, the way it might overrun your garden. Here, these fruits will take you on unexpected turns and give sideways insights into relationships, self-care, land stewardship, medical and botanical history, and so much more. What if the primary way you show love is through baking, but your partner suffers from celiac disease? Why leave in the pits for Willa Cather's plum jam? How can we rely on bodies as fragile as the fruits that nourish them? Kate Lebo's unquenchable curiosity promises adventure: intimate, sensuous, ranging, bitter, challenging, rotten, ripe. After reading The Book of Difficult Fruit , you will never think of sweetness the same way again.
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