Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit

by Andrew Moore

Book Overview

The 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603587039
• ISBN13: 9781603587037
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"