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THE PERFECT FRUIT Good Breeding, Bad Seeds and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot by Chip Brantley Bloomsbury USA July 2009 $25.00/Hardcover photographs ISBN-13: 978-1596913813 Sample recipe Buy this book Printer-friendly page

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The apple-versus-orange debate officially ends with THE PERFECT FRUIT. A succulently sweet stone fruit hybrid, the pluot's creation tale is one of fruit breeders and farmers, smugglers and zealots. More than simple horticultural history or cultural analysis, this book brings together all the characters behind food production that we never see in the grocery store: the farmer, the geneticist, the vendor, the journalist. A tale of the quest for genetic perfection, THE PERFECT FRUIT will leave your mouth watering for more tales of the juicy pluot.

Chip Brantley is the co-founder of Cookthink.com, a food and cooking website with a blog, a variety of recipes, and cooking tips. Before devoting himself to Cookthink, he was a food writer at the San Francisco Examiner. Brantley has contributed to Slate, The Boston Globe, The Oxford American, and Gastronomica. He currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife and son.