6/20/2023 0 Comments Pawpaw by Andrew Moore![]() In Pawpaw-a 2016 James Beard Foundation Award nominee in the Writing & 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. So why have so few people heard of the pawpaw, much less tasted one? 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. 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. ![]() ![]() It grows wild in twenty-six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling, tropical-flavored abundance. The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. ![]()
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