Author Chat with Andrew Moore, author of Pawpaw: America's Forgotten Fruit

Pawpaw: The Story of America's Forgotten Fruit

The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling, tropical-flavored abundance. So why have so few people heard of the pawpaw, much less tasted one? Author Andrew Moore will explore the past, present, and future of this remarkable species.

Here is a short segment from PBS NewsHour that features Andrew Moore (his bit starts right around the 2 min mark).

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-pawpaw-americas-forgotten-native-fruit-finds-new-popularity

Andrew Moore is the author of Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit, which was a James Beard Foundation Award nominee in Writing & Literature. His next book, The Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America's Eastern Wilderness, will be published by Mariner Books next summer.