Agent: Emma Paterson, Aitken Alexander Assoc. Unusual and piquant, this off-kilter collection will hit the spot with readers hungry for something a little different. On the recipe front, many concoctions feel like the result of hard-won battles-one imagines Lebo’s kitchen overflowing with sticky pots and jars-with cravings-inducing taste-combinations such as a barley soup with fennel sausage and “faceclock greens” or vanilla bean cake with buttercream. In these tangential turns, such as connecting her tasting of durian fruit to eating dim sum with “a man who would never love me,” Lebo never fails to surprise. Whatever you need to stay well”), and are leavened with pungently wrought memoir. Each chapter features a different hard-to-wrangle fruit, a discussion of its history and usages, and witty medicinal and culinary recipes (elderberry syrup: “Swallow 1 spoonful a day. How can we rely on bodies as fragile as the fruits that nourish them Lebos unquenchable curiosity leads us to intimate, sensuous, enlightening contemplations. She has barely begun her A-to-Z with an entry on Aronia berries (“a tannic pucker that rivals raw quince”) before spiraling into a self-deprecating take on her health obsessions. Claudia RodenInspired by twenty-six fruits, essayist, poet and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends the culinary, medical and personal. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc. Lebo ( Pie & Whiskey) considers fruits of all flavors in this sensationally chaotic compendium.
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