Pulp: A Practical Guide to Cooking with Fruit

(Hardback)

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Pulpis a hardworking book of recipes that focuses on all the ways fruit can enhance simple, delicious mainsfor example, by elevating roasted vegetables, garnishing soup, or adding perfume to a roasted pork or brisket. UnlikeRuffageandGrist,Pulpis about regularly incorporating fruit to add variety and seasonality to main dishes.

Home cooks and bakers alike will rejoice in the alternately sweet and savory recipes such as Roast Chicken over Blueberries, Cornbread + Lemon; Melon, Cucumber + Chickpea Salad; and Rum-Plum Clafoutis. The book also features helpful reference material, a Baker's Toolkit, and more than 100 atmospheric photos, delivered with the can-do attitude and accessibility of the Midwestern United States. This next generous offering from beloved, trusted author Abra Berens is a necessary addition to any kitchen shelf alongside its predecessors and other mainstays likePlenty,Six Seasons, andSmall Victories.THIS IS THEATOZOF FRUIT: The content is deep and authoritative, but also wide-ranging, with information and recipes for 15 different, widely accessible fruit varieties: Apples, Apricots, Blueberries, Cherries, Drupelet Berries (blackberries, raspberries, mulberries), Grapes, Ground Cherries (a.k.a. cape gooseberries), Melons, Nectarines + Peaches, Pears, Plums, Quince, Rhubarb, Strawberries, and Tart Round Fruits (cranberries, currants, gooseberries, lingonberries + autumn olive).Pulpfeatures only fruits that grow in the Midwestern United States, so no bananas, passion fruit, or citrus here.

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"Locally focused but widely applicable, this will have home chefs heading to the farmers market or produce aisle with renewed confidence."

Author Bio

Abra Berens is a Michigan chef, author, and former farmer. Through every recipe written and meal served, she aims to tighten the connection between eaters and growers. She believes we can invest in a stronger, more equitable food system for everyone, from producers to grocers to consumers. Her cookbookRuffage: A Practice Guide to Vegetableswas a 2019 Michigan Notable Book winner and James Beard Award nominee. Her dinners at Granor Farm in Three Oaks, Michigan, made her a James Beard semifinalist for Outstanding Chef: Great Lakes.