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- The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot is a new book of nonfiction by Chip Brantley.
Part biography, part cultural history, and part horticultural inquest, The Perfect Fruit tells the creation story of the pluot, a plum-apricot hybrid developed by Floyd Zaiger, who's often called the greatest fruit breeder in the world. - Privacy Type:
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The Perfect Fruit (the book)
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- The Perfect Fruit (the book)
- Category:
- Entertainment & Arts - Books & Literature
- Description:
- The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot is a new book of nonfiction by Chip Brantley.
Part biography, part cultural history, and part horticultural inquest, The Perfect Fruit tells the creation story of the pluot, a plum-apricot hybrid developed by Floyd Zaiger, who's often called the greatest fruit breeder in the world. - Privacy Type:
- Open: All content is public.
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"With great humor, a love of detail and the kind of curiosity that opens one roomful of questions after another, Brantley leads us through the history of plums, the San Joaquin Valley, fruit breeding and the deep connections between food and love."
—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times.
"An engaging book...whose central theme, the struggle to deliver flavorful fruit despite the compromises of industrial growing and marketing, should interest anyone who cares about food."
—David Karp, Los Angeles Times.
"Brantley’s engaging mixture of agronomy, reportage and food porn... goes down easy."
—Publishers Weekly.
"An entertaining account of a growing season in California's San Joaquin Valley."
—Dan Kois, Washington Post.
"This [is] the most interesting book I've read in a long time.... I highly recommend you read this book."
—Faith Durand, Apartment Therapy's The Kitchn.
"I haven't been so pleased with a fruit book in a long time... This book does something that no other book I've read has really done, at least not as well, and that is to capture what it's like on the inside of the fruit industry."
—Phil Stewart, The Fruit Blog
