{"product_id":"book-of-difficult-fruit-hardcover","title":"BOOK OF DIFFICULT FRUIT (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dazzling.\" —Samin Nosrat, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eInspired by twenty-six fruits, the essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural, culinary, medical, and personal history. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e is for aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. \u003ci\u003eD\u003c\/i\u003e is for durian, endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odor—peaches, old garlic. \u003ci\u003eM\u003c\/i\u003e is for medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by gardeners for its flowers. \u003ci\u003eQ\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Lebo’s unquenchable curiosity promises adventure: intimate, sensuous, ranging, bitter, challenging, rotten, ripe. After reading \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Difficult Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e, you will never think of sweetness the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lebo, Kate","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337182966034,"sku":"9780374110321","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/4784623482321_feffd418-d2ce-4ddc-ab03-ce82702ebef2.jpg?v=1780435470","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/book-of-difficult-fruit-hardcover","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}