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. " dazzling, thorny new essay collection." -Samin Nosrat, The New York Times Reviews BookĮxcerpts About the Author Reviews Praise for The Book of Difficult Fruit After reading The Book of Difficult Fruit, you will never think of sweetness the same way again.
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.
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