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The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly

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Lyrical essays on the virtues of unconventional fruits.

If you enjoy a blend of poetic language, personal anecdotes, and a unique culinary perspective, "The Book of Difficult Fruit" could resonate deeply with you. It's not just about the fruits themselves, but how they tie into larger themes of life, love, and health. Kate Lebo's approach to storytelling is both grounded and imaginative, allowing you to view the ordinary world through a new lens—one where every fruit has a story, and every story feeds the soul.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9781509879250
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction, Food & Drink, Personal Development, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Food and Drink, Memoir, Personal Development, Cooking

Description

In a work of unique invention, pie expert and poet Kate Lebo blends the medical, culinary, and personal to make lyrical essays and recipes inspired by twenty-six fruitsA is for Aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with healing power. D is for Durian, endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifty odor-- turpentine to motor oil to stomach acid. M is for Medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by landscapers for its funny flowers. Q is for Quince, which, fresh, gives off the scent of "roses and citrus and rich women's perfume" but cannot be eaten until bletted: softened by frost and left to rot a bit. These and other difficult fruits serve as the central ingredients of twenty-six lyrical essays that range from deeply personal to medical history, sometimes within a single piece. The entries are associative, often poetic, taking unexpected turns and giving sideways insights into life, relationships, self-care, modern medicine, and more. What if the primary way you show love is to bake, but your boyfriend 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?Lebo's unquenchable curiosity leads us to intimate, poetic contemplations of pleasure and suffering, medicine and poison, transgression, power and erasure. Weaving together memoir, history, and personal essay, The Book of Difficult Fruit is the very best of food writing: graceful, surprising, and ecstatic. Includes black and white illustrations


Author: Kate Lebo
Publisher: Picador
Publication Date: 2021
 

Lyrical essays on the virtues of unconventional fruits.

If you enjoy a blend of poetic language, personal anecdotes, and a unique culinary perspective, "The Book of Difficult Fruit" could resonate deeply with you. It's not just about the fruits themselves, but how they tie into larger themes of life, love, and health. Kate Lebo's approach to storytelling is both grounded and imaginative, allowing you to view the ordinary world through a new lens—one where every fruit has a story, and every story feeds the soul.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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