Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit by Moore, Andrew
Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit by Moore, Andrew

Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit

The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and...
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Author: Andrew Moore
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Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit by Moore, Andrew

Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit

$42.73
Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit by Moore, Andrew

Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit

$42.73
Author: Andrew Moore
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee

"This book took me on an enchanting and engaging ride through the history, folklore, and science of a neglected but magical food plant. Andrew Moore shows us, in delightful prose and a wealth of fascinating stories, the role that the under-appreciated pawpaw has played in North American culture."--Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia's Garden and The Permaculture City

"Andrew Moore takes us on a very personal journey investigating how and why North America's largest indigenous fruit largely disappeared, and documenting efforts to revive it. Pawpaw is a pleasure to read, and if you do you'll probably find yourself searching for and loving these delectable fruits."--Sandor Ellix Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation

Author: Andrew Moore
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Published: 04/24/2017
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9781603587037

About the Author
Andrew Moore grew up in Lake Wales, Florida, just south of the pawpaw's native range. A writer and gardener, he now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the news editor and a feature writer for Pop City, a weekly news e-magazine in Pittsburgh, and his stories have been published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Daily Yonder, and the Biscayne Times. Pawpaw is his first book.
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