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Pawpaw

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In search of America’s forgotten fruit

Andrew Moore

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.

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-flavoured 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.

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.


Product details

Published 2016
Chelsea Green Publishing
Hardcover, 320 pages, colour photographs.

ISBN: 9781603585965

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Weight 0.62 kg
Dimensions 235 × 160 × 22 mm

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