Pawpaw
Subtitle: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit
By: Andrew Moore ; foreword by Michael W. Twitty
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781603585965
Subjects: Pawpaw; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Pawpaws in history; title: What's a pawpaw?; title: A brief history of pawpaws in America; title: A tale of two fruits; title: Part II. Pawpaws to the people; title: Johnny Pawpawseed; title: Hunting the lost Ketter fruit; title: Peterson's gambit; title: In the orchard; title: The Ohio Pawpaw Festival; title: Tobacco, acetogenins, and ice cream; title: The Ohio Pawpaw Growers Association; title: Into the woods: a new orchard; title: Part III. Way down yonder: travels in the pawpaw belt; title: St. Louis; title: Historic Virginia; title: North Carolina; title: Down South; title: Appalachia; title: Cherokee; title: North and Midwest; title: Appendix 1: Pawpaw ice cream; title: Appendix 2: a selection of pawpaw nurseries; title: Appendix 3: cultivar profiles and impressions.