"A collection of personal essays about family, illness and nature, each linked to a different fruit that-over the years, warranted or otherwise-has developed something of a bad reputation. Alex Beggs, The New York Times Book Review The Book of Difficult Fruit is brimming with obscure knowledge that’s going to loom over every gin martini I drink for the next decade, and there are fantastic recipes too. often fascinating, sometimes juicy, rarely dry. Every sentence is as sensuous as the first bite into a cold, juicy plum." " glorious mash-up of memoir, love note, and cookbook. Shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner of the Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction After reading The Book of Difficult Fruit, you will never think of sweetness the same way again.Ī Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, The Globe and Mail, Electric Lit, New York magazine Kate Lebo’s unquenchable curiosity promises adventure: intimate, sensuous, ranging, bitter, challenging, rotten, ripe. 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? 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 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. In a work of unique invention, these and other difficult fruits serve as the central ingredients of twenty-six lyrical essays (with recipes).
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. M is for medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by gardeners for its flowers. D is for durian, endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odor-peaches, old garlic. Inspired by twenty-six fruits, the essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural, culinary, medical, and personal history.Ī is for aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. “ dazzling, thorny new essay collection.” -Samin Nosrat, The New York Times Every sentence is as sensuous as the first bite into a cold, juicy plum.” -Hillary Kelly, Vulture “ glorious mash-up of memoir, love note, and cookbook.
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