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

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Atlantic, New York magazine and NPR
"Dazzling." —Samin Nosrat, The New York Times Magazine
Inspired by twenty-six fruits, the essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural, culinary, medical, and personal history.
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 Sh...