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Fruit Hunters : A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession by Adam Leith Gollner (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherScribner
ISBN-10074329694X
ISBN-139780743296946
eBay Product ID (ePID)18038775134
Product Key Features
Book TitleFruit Hunters : a Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicLife Sciences / Botany, Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, Fruit, Specific Ingredients / Fruit, Industries / Agribusiness
IllustratorYes
GenreCooking, Technology & Engineering, Science, Gardening, Business & Economics
AuthorAdam Leith Gollner
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height9.2 in
Item Weight16.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-042423
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"We 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. " -- Jane and Michael Stern, authors of Roadfood, "The Fruit Huntersis 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 mangost eens to parties is welcome at my table." -- Amy Stewart, author ofFlower Confidential, "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 mangost eens to parties is welcome at my table." -- Amy Stewart, author of Flower Confidential, "Adam Leith Gollner is the best kind of monomaniac. Hess 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 Huntersis the heartfelt and always fascinating story of the quest for the sweetest prizes the natural world has to offer". -- Taras Grescoe, author ofBottomfeederandThe Devil's Picnic, "We 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. " -- Jane and Michael Stern, authors ofRoadfood, "Adam Leith Gollner is the best kind of monomaniac. Hess 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 heartfelt and 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
Dewey Decimal641.3/4
Table Of ContentPrologue Blame It on Brazil Introduction The Fruit Underworld Part 1 Nature 1 Wild, Ripe and Juicy: What Is a Fruit? 2 Hawaiian Ultraexotics 3 How Fruits Shaped Us 4 The Rare Fruit Council International Part 2 Adventure 5 Into Borneo 6 The Fruitarians 7 The Lady Fruit 8 Seedy: The Fruitleggers Part 3 Commerce 9 Marketing: From Grapples to Gojis 10 Miraculin: The Story of the Miracle Fruit 11 Mass Production: The Geopolitics of Sweetness 12 Permanent Global Summertime Part 4 Obsession 13 Preservation: The Passion of the Fruit 14 The Case of the Fruit Detective 15 Making Contact with the Otherworld 16 Fruition: Or the Fever of Creation Acknowledgments Further Reading Index
SynopsisDelicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, "The Fruit Hunters" is the engrossing story of some of Earth's most desired foods. In lustrous prose, Adam Leith Gollner draws readers into a Willy Wonka-like world with mangoes that taste like pina coladas, orange cloudberries, peanut butter fruits and the miracle fruit that turns everything sour to sweet, making lemons taste like lemonade. Peopled with a cast of characters as varied and bizarre as the fruit -- smugglers, inventors, explorers and epicures -- this extraordinary book unveils the mysterious universe of fruit, from the jungles of Borneo to the prized orchards of Florida's fruit hunters to American supermarkets. Gollner examines the fruits we eat and explains why we eat them (the scientific, economic and aesthetic reasons); traces the life of mass-produced fruits (how they are created, grown and marketed) and explores the underworld of fruits that are inaccessible, ignored and even forbidden in the Western world. An intrepid journalist and keen observer of nature -- both human and botanical -- Adam Leith Gollner has written a vivid tale of horticultural obsession., Gollner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the world of fruit--from the jungles of Borneo to American supermarkets--in this broadly appealing and vividly written tale of horticultural obsession., Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's most desired foods. In lustrous prose, Adam Leith Gollner draws readers into a Willy Wonka-like world with mangoes that taste like piña coladas, orange cloudberries, peanut butter fruits and the miracle fruit that turns everything sour to sweet, making lemons taste like lemonade. Peopled with a cast of characters as varied and bizarre as the fruit -- smugglers, inventors, explorers and epicures -- this extraordinary book unveils the mysterious universe of fruit, from the jungles of Borneo to the prized orchards of Florida's fruit hunters to American supermarkets. Gollner examines the fruits we eat and explains why we eat them (the scientific, economic and aesthetic reasons); traces the life of mass-produced fruits (how they are created, grown and marketed) and explores the underworld of fruits that are inaccessible, ignored and even forbidden in the Western world. An intrepid journalist and keen observer of nature -- both human and botanical -- Adam Leith Gollner has written a vivid tale of horticultural obsession.
LC Classification NumberSB354.8.G65 2008
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