num_pages: 416
description: Inspired by twenty-six fruits 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 shifty odor--peaches old garlicIn this work of unique invention these and other difficult fruits serve as the central ingredients of twenty-six lyrical essays (and recipes!) that range from deeply personal to botanical from culinary to medical from humorous to philosophical. 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 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?Includes black and white illustrations
language: English
title: The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux