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Pawpaw - In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit (Paperback)
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Pawpaw - In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit (Paperback)
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The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a
cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six
states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling,
tropical-flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained
Native Americans and European explorers, presidents, and enslaved
African Americans, inspiring folk songs, poetry, and scores of
place names from Georgia to Illinois. Its trees are an organic
grower's dream, requiring no pesticides or herbicides to thrive,
and containing compounds that are among the most potent anticancer
agents yet discovered. So why have so few people heard of the
pawpaw, much less tasted one? In Pawpaw-a 2016 James Beard
Foundation Award nominee in the Writing & Literature
category-author Andrew Moore explores the past, present, and future
of this unique fruit, traveling from the Ozarks to Monticello;
canoeing the lower Mississippi in search of wild fruit; drinking
pawpaw beer in Durham, North Carolina; tracking down lost cultivars
in Appalachian hollers; and helping out during harvest season in a
Maryland orchard. Along the way, he gathers pawpaw lore and
knowledge not only from the plant breeders and horticulturists
working to bring pawpaws into the mainstream (including Neal
Peterson, known in pawpaw circles as the fruit's own "Johnny
Pawpawseed"), but also regular folks who remember eating them in
the woods as kids, but haven't had one in over fifty years. As much
as Pawpaw is a compendium of pawpaw knowledge, it also plumbs
deeper questions about American foodways-how economic, biologic,
and cultural forces combine, leading us to eat what we eat, and
sometimes to ignore the incredible, delicious food growing all
around us. If you haven't yet eaten a pawpaw, this book won't let
you rest until you do.
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