“A perfume so intense it confuses the senses.”
One of North America’s least-known native fruits, the pawpaw deserves a stage of its own. Jessamine chats with historian, writer and citizen of the Choctaw Nation, Devon Mihesuah. Having grown up eating pawpaws, Devon wants pawpaw fruits to be available to Indigenous communities for years to come. To explore a pathway to pawpaw preservation through cultivation, Jessamine speaks with Neal Peterson, a plant geneticist who has spent the last 45 years creating pawpaws for the future.
Fruit Love Letters is part of Whetstone Radio Collective. Learn more about Fruit Love Letters here.
Find show notes here.
Fruit Utopia - The Preston B. Bird and Mary Heinlein Fruit and Spice Park
The Fig - Mother of all Fruit
The Mulberry's Imprint on History
The Improbable Path of the Avocado Pit
The Persimmon - A Sweet Summer Package for Winter Eating
The Beautiful Complexities of the Apple
The Subtly Essential Ingredient for Equatorial Chefs
Cultivated or Wild the Blueberry Has a Story to Tell
The Fruit the World Can't Help But Love
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