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Lebo Kate - The Book Of Difficult Fruit Arguments For The Tart Tender And Unruly (With Recipes) - Paperback
Lebo Kate - The Book Of Difficult Fruit Arguments For The Tart Tender And Unruly (With Recipes) - Paperback
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Description: A glorious mash - up of memoir love note and cookbook Every sentence is as sensuous as the first bite into a cold juicy plum. Hillary Kelly Vulture A dazzling thorny new essay collection. Samin Nosrat The New York Times Inspired by twenty - six fruits the essayist poet and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural culinary medical and personal history. A is for aronia berry member of the apple family clothes - stainer superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for durian endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odor peaches old garlic. M is for medlar name - checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape beloved by gardeners for its flowers. Q is for quince which when 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. In a work of unique invention these and other difficult fruits serve as the central ingredients of twenty - six lyrical essays (with recipes). What makes a fruit difficult? Its cultivation its harvest its preparation the brevity of its moment for ripeness its tendency toward rot or poison the way it might overrun your garden. Here these fruits will take you on unexpected turns and give sideways insights into relationships self - care land stewardship medical and botanical history and so much more. What if the primary way you show love is through baking 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? Kate Lebo's unquenchable curiosity promises adventure: intimate sensuous ranging bitter challenging rotten ripe. After reading The Book of Difficult Fruit you will never think of sweetness the same way again.
Title: The Book Of Difficult Fruit Arguments For The Tart Tender And Unruly (With Recipes)
Author(s): Lebo Kate
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250829474
Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/12/2022
Category: Cookery By Ingredient
Description: A glorious mash - up of memoir love note and cookbook Every sentence is as sensuous as the first bite into a cold juicy plum. Hillary Kelly Vulture A dazzling thorny new essay collection. Samin Nosrat The New York Times Inspired by twenty - six fruits the essayist poet and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural culinary medical and personal history. A is for aronia berry member of the apple family clothes - stainer superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for durian endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odor peaches old garlic. M is for medlar name - checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape beloved by gardeners for its flowers. Q is for quince which when 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. In a work of unique invention these and other difficult fruits serve as the central ingredients of twenty - six lyrical essays (with recipes). What makes a fruit difficult? Its cultivation its harvest its preparation the brevity of its moment for ripeness its tendency toward rot or poison the way it might overrun your garden. Here these fruits will take you on unexpected turns and give sideways insights into relationships self - care land stewardship medical and botanical history and so much more. What if the primary way you show love is through baking 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? Kate Lebo's unquenchable curiosity promises adventure: intimate sensuous ranging bitter challenging rotten ripe. After reading The Book of Difficult Fruit you will never think of sweetness the same way again.
Title: The Book Of Difficult Fruit Arguments For The Tart Tender And Unruly (With Recipes)
Author(s): Lebo Kate
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250829474
Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/12/2022
Category: Cookery By Ingredient
