I expected this book to be more about fruit in history, but a lot of it is modern fruit - love of fruit, kinds of fruit, fruit bought in stores. Some of this book freaked me out - what stores do to fruit so people will buy it (picked long before it was ripe, adding color so people will see the colo...
There's a lot of fascinating information in this wildly discursive book. There's also a fair bit of meandering and repetition, which knocked my rating down some. It's worth a look but might be better skimmed than read.
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