{"product_id":"pawpaw-in-search-of-americas-forgotten-fruit-9781603587037","title":"Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 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-flavored 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e So why have so few people heard of the pawpaw, much less tasted one? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003cem\u003ePawpaw\u003c\/em\u003e--a 2016 James Beard Foundation Award nominee in the Writing \u0026amp; Literature category--author Andrew Moore explores the past, present, and future of this unique fruit, traveling from the Ozarks to Monticello; canoeing the lower Mississippi in search of wild fruit; drinking pawpaw beer in Durham, North Carolina; tracking down lost cultivars in Appalachian hollers; and helping out during harvest season in a Maryland orchard. Along the way, he gathers pawpaw lore and knowledge not only from the plant breeders and horticulturists working to bring pawpaws into the mainstream (including Neal Peterson, known in pawpaw circles as the fruit's own \"Johnny Pawpawseed\"), but also regular folks who remember eating them in the woods as kids, but haven't had one in over fifty years. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As much as \u003cem\u003ePawpaw\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoore, Andrew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAndrew Moore\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003egrew up in Lake Wales, Florida, just south of the pawpaw's native range. A writer and gardener, he now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the news editor and a feature writer for \u003cem\u003ePop City\u003c\/em\u003e, a weekly news e-magazine in Pittsburgh, and his stories have been published in the \u003cem\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Daily Yonder\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eBiscayne Times\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003ePawpaw \u003c\/em\u003eis his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50620144255250,"sku":"9781603587037","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d5aa5c57-50a4-4ead-a20b-d12e4eb31c9e.jpg?v=1732560994","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pawpaw-in-search-of-americas-forgotten-fruit-9781603587037","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}