Why have so few people heard of the pawpaw, much less tasted one?
The pawpaw is a singular plant, the small trees bear the largest edible fruit native to the U.S. A favorite of Native Americans and early settlers, the fruit has a creamy texture tasting of a sweet tropical mix of banana, mango, and pineapple.
Andrew Moore, author, gardener, and lecturer grew up in Lake Wales, Florida, just south of the pawpaws’ native range. He ate his first fruit at a pawpaw festival in Ohio in 2010 and has been obsessed with the fruit, its folklore, and its future ever since. He now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was the news editor and a feature writer for Pop City, a weekly news e-magazine in Pittsburgh. His stories have been published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The American Gardener, The Daily Yonder, Mother Earth News, and the Biscayne Times. Pawpaw In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit is his first book and a 2016 nominee of the James Beard Foundation Award.
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