PawPaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit Cindy Conner Through author and chef Aliza

Through author and chef Aliza Green’s pasta expertise and encyclopedic knowledge of all things culinary (plus hundreds of gorgeous photos by acclaimed food photographer Steve Legato)

If you haven’t yet eaten a pawpaw

In-a-snap party snacks (Baked Brie and Strawberries

and forages in a whole-system approach that offers several benefits to the farmer and the environment

vermicompost – even biochar

PawPaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit Cindy Conner Through author and chef AlizaThe largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in 26 states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet smelling, tropical flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained Native Americans and European explorers, presidents, and enslaved African Americans, inspiring folk songs, poetry, and scores of place names from Georgia to Illinois. Its trees are an organic growers