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In Search of America†™ s Forgotten Fruit
Andrew Moore
Paperback
$ 27.95
The large edible yield native to the United States savor like a hybridizing between a banana tree and a mango tree . It grows wild in twenty - six states , deck Eastern timberland each fall with perfumed - smelling , tropic - flavored teemingness . Historically , it fed and sustained Native Americans and European Internet Explorer , presidents , and enslave African Americans , animate folk music call , verse , and score of position names from Georgia to Illinois . Its Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree are an organic raiser ’s aspiration , requiring no pesticides or herbicides to thrive , and containing compounds that are among the most virile anticancer agents yet discovered .
So why have so few people get wind of the Carica papaya , much less tasted one ?
InPawpaw — a 2016 James Beard Foundation Award nominee in the Writing & Literature category — author Andrew Moore explore the past , present , and futurity of this unique yield , traveling from the Ozarks to Monticello ; canoe the lower Mississippi in lookup of wild yield ; drinking melon tree beer in Durham , North Carolina ; tracking down lose cultivars in Appalachian holloa ; and facilitate out during harvest season in a Maryland orchard . Along the elbow room , he gathers pawpaw lore and knowledge not only from the plant stock breeder and horticulturists working to bring pawpaws into the mainstream ( including Neal Peterson , know in pawpaw circles as the yield ’s own “ Johnny Pawpawseed ” ) , but also veritable common people who remember eating them in the woods as kids , but have n’t had one in over fifty years .
As much asPawpawis a compendium of pawpaw knowledge , it also plumbs deeper inquiry about American foodways — how economic , biologic , and cultural forces combine , guide us to eat what we deplete , and sometimes to ignore the incredible , delicious food originate all around us . If you have n’t yet exhaust a pawpaw , this book wo n’t get you catch one’s breath until you do .
James Beard Foundation Book Award campaigner
“ This book took me on an enthralling and engaging ride through the chronicle , folklore , and science of a neglected but wizardly food plant . Andrew Moore show us , in delicious prose and a riches of engrossing stories , the role that the under - revalue pawpaw has playact in North American culture . ”—Toby Hemenway , author ofGaia ’s GardenandThe Permaculture City“Andrew Moore takes us on a very personal journeying investigate how and why North America ’s large endemic fruit largely disappear , and document attempt to revive it . Pawpawis a pleasure to understand , and if you do you ’ll probably get yourself look for for and loving these delectable fruits . ”—Sandor Ellix Katz , author ofThe Art of Fermentation
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