The Book of Difficult Fruit (Paperback): Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)

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Available from Book Larder when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

“[A] glorious mash-up of memoir, love note, and cookbook . . . Every sentence is . . . sensuous.” —Hillary Kelly, Vulture A is for aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for durian, endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odor—peaches, old garlic. M is for medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by gardeners for its flowers. Q is for quince, which, when fresh, gives off the scent of “roses and citrus and