PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. The Book of Difficult Fruit is the very best of food writing: graceful, surprising, and ecstatic. Lebo's unquenchable curiosity leads us to intimate, sensuous, enlightening contemplations. What if the primary way you show love is to bake, 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? The entries are associative, often poetic, taking unexpected turns and giving sideways insights into life, relationships, self-care, modern medicine, and more. In this work of unique invention, these and other difficult fruits serve as the central ingredients of 26 lyrical essays that range from deeply personal to botanical, from culinary to medical, from humorous to philosophical. Q is for Quince, which, 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. M is for Medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by gardeners for its flowers. D is for Durian, endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odor - peaches, old garlic. Shes the author of the cookbook Pie School and. A is for Aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, super-fruit with reputed healing power. Kate Lebos first collection of nonfiction, The Book of Difficult Fruit, was published by FSG in April 2021.
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