The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes) by Lebo, Kate

The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780374110321)

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The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes) by Lebo, Kate

The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)

$28.00
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes) by Lebo, Kate

The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)

$28.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 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.

Author: Kate Lebo
ISBN-10: 0374110328
ISBN-13: 9780374110321
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 04/06/2021
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/22/2021
Library Journal 03/01/2021 pg. 85
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2021
Booklist 03/15/2021 pg. 22
By Kate Lebo
By Kate Lebo
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Kate Lebo is the author of the cookbook Pie School and the poetry chapbook Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and is the coeditor, with Samuel Ligon, of Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter & Booze. Her essay about listening through hearing loss, "The Loudproof Room," originally appeared in New England Review and was anthologized in The Best American Essays 2015. She lives in Spokane, Washington, where she is an apprentice cheesemaker to Lora Lea Misterly of Quillisascut Farm.

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