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Podcast: Eat Your Words Presents: Saved by the Bellini
Episode: Episode 244: Pawpaw: America’s Forgotten Fruit
Description: The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango… any guesses? This week on Eat Your Words , host Cathy Erway is on the line with Andrew Moore discussing the pawpaw. Author of “Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit,” Andrew explains that the fruit actually grows wild in twenty-six 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...