The Fruit Hunters

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"The Fruit Hunters is a delectable journey through jungles, street markets and orchards in search of the world's most exotic fruits. Gollner's quest for the ¦ forbidden coco-de-mer, his love affair with the chupa-chupa and his durian-induced intoxication make him as fascinating a narrator as the fruit hunters, farmers and scientists he encounters along the way. I loved taking this culinary adventure with Gollner—anyone who brings mangosteens to parties is welcome at my table." —^my Stewart, author of Flower Confidential
have swooned with delight over Michigan's late-summer Bing cherries, but such moments of roadside pleasure pale in comparison to* the passions that drive fruit hunters to discover and nurture exotics never found in supermarkets. Oh, how we would love to suck on a miracle berry of Africa and savor a tiger-striped fig! Adam Leith Gollner's mesmerizing account of fruits that are rare or commercial, erotic or medicinal, and of the... Tovább

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THE FRUIT HUNTERS
"The Fruit Hunters is a delectable journey through jungles, street markets and orchards in search of the world's most exotic fruits. Gollner's quest for the ¦ forbidden coco-de-mer, his love affair with the chupa-chupa and his durian-induced intoxication make him as fascinating a narrator as the fruit hunters, farmers and scientists he encounters along the way. I loved taking this culinary adventure with Gollner—anyone who brings mangosteens to parties is welcome at my table." —^my Stewart, author of Flower Confidential
have swooned with delight over Michigan's late-summer Bing cherries, but such moments of roadside pleasure pale in comparison to* the passions that drive fruit hunters to discover and nurture exotics never found in supermarkets. Oh, how we would love to suck on a miracle berry of Africa and savor a tiger-striped fig! Adam Leith Gollner's mesmerizing account of fruits that are rare or commercial, erotic or medicinal, and of the sometimes nutty characters who care about them provokes righteous indignation over how much we are denied as well as a ravenous appetite to taste it."
—yane and Michael Stern, authors oiRoadfood
"Adam Leith Gollner is the best ^ind of monomaniac. He's a writer in love with his subject, an obsessive chasing after obsessives. And what a fruitful Eden this Adam has discovered: the global underworld of rare-fruit aficionados, fruitarians, fruit smugglers and fruit detectives. Lyrical and well informed, exuberant and erudite and recounted with aptly ripe turns of phrase. The Fruit Hunters is the heartfelttand always fascinating story of the quest for the sweetest prizes the natural world has to offer."
— Taras Grescoe, author of Bottomfeeder and The Devil's Picnic
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