432 pages | Hardcover |

AnEaterBest Cookbook of Spring 2023

First vegetables, then grains, and now, fruit. This is the beautiful follow-up to Abra Berens’sRuffageandGrist, with more than 215 recipes and variations for using fruit in sweet and savory recipes to highlight seasonality and flavor.

Pulpis a hardworking book of recipes that focuses on all the ways fruit can enhance simple, delicious mainsfor example, by elevating roasted vegetables, garnishing soup, or adding perfume to a roasted pork or brisket. UnlikeRuffageandGrist,Pulpisabout regularly incorporating fruit to add variety and seasonality to main dishes.

Home cooks and bakers alike will rejoice in thealternately sweet and savory recipes such asRoast Chicken over Blueberries, Cornbread + Lemon;Melon, Cucumber + Chickpea Salad;and Rum-Plum Clafoutis. The book also features helpful reference material, a Baker’s Toolkit, and more than 100 atmosphericphotos, delivered with the can-do attitude and accessibility of the Midwestern United States.This nextgenerous offering from beloved, trusted author Abra Berens is a necessary addition to any kitchen shelf alongside its predecessors and other mainstays likePlenty,Six Seasons,andSmall Victories.

THIS IS THEATOZOF FRUIT: The content is deep and authoritative, but also wide-ranging, with information and recipes for 15 different, widely accessible fruit varieties: Apples, Apricots, Blueberries, Cherries, Drupelet Berries (blackberries, raspberries, mulberries), Grapes, Ground Cherries (a.k.a. cape gooseberries), Melons, Nectarines + Peaches, Pears, Plums, Quince, Rhubarb, Strawberries, and Tart Round Fruits (cranberries, currants, gooseberries, lingonberries + autumn olive).Pulpfeatures only fruits that grow in the Midwestern United States, so no bananas, passion fruit, or citrus here.