Sharma Shields will be across the screen from Kate Lebo in conversation about Leob's first collection of nonfiction, "The Book of Difficult Fruit."
Lebo is the author of the cookbook "Pie School," the poetry chapbook, "Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers," and co-editor with Samuel Ligon of "Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze."
Join us for this free virtual event on Tuesday, June 8 at 7 p.m.
Inspired by twenty-six fruits, the essayist, poet, and pie lady Kate Lebo expertly blends natural, culinary, medical, and personal history.
A is for aronia, berry member of the apple family, clothes-stainer, superfruit with reputed healing power. D is for durian, endowed with a dramatic rind and a shifting odor―peaches, old garlic. M is for medlar, name-checked by Shakespeare for its crude shape, beloved by gardeners for its flowers. Q is for quince, which, when fresh, gives off the scent of “roses and citrus and rich women’s perfume,” but if eaten raw is so astringent it wicks the juice from one’s mouth.
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