Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten FruitThe 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 organic grower’s dream, requiring no pesticides or herbicides to thrive, and containing compounds that are among the most potent anticancer agents yet discovered. |
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User Review - Jaylia3 - LibraryThingPicture a flavor that combines banana and mango, or imagine a fruit nicknamed custard apple, and what you have in your mind is the pawpaw, a fruit of tropical origin that somehow worked its way well ... Read full review
This is a good book that is more like an adventure story. It is a valuable read and has good sources that are well documented. The book is well worth obtaining for anyone wanting to grow pawpaws.
Contents
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Toward Domestication | 23 |
Johnny Pawpawseed | 37 |
Petersons Gambit | 61 |
The Ohio Pawpaw Festival | 85 |
Tobacco Acetogenins and Ice Cream | 99 |
The Ohio Pawpaw Growers Association | 113 |
Into the Woods A New Orchard | 127 |