The Book of Difficult Fruit

<p><b>‘A richly researched food history, gentle memoir and left-field recipe book.’ <i>i</i> newspaper</b><br> <b><br> ‘A dazzling, thorny new essay collection.’ Samin Nosrat,<i> New York Times</i></b><br> <b><br> ‘A beautiful, fascinating read full of surprises – a real pleasure.’ Claudia Roden<br><br> ‘Inventive and charming . . . profound and deeply felt.’ <i>Buzzfeed</i><br><br> </b>Inspired by twenty-six fruits, essayist, poet and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends the culinary, medical and personal.<br><br> 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 shifty odour – peaches, old garlic. M is for Medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by gardeners f