Cooking with fruit, cherries, bananas

Good Food

KCRW

Society & Culture

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Abra Berens, a native Michigander, uses peak-of-the-season fruits in a wide array of preparations. From the Underground Railroad to the Oregon Trail, KCRW's Tyler Boudreaux traces the history of the Black Republican cherry. High in sugar and acid, cherries are in full swing at the Santa Monica Farmer's Market, and Clemence de Lutz has a recipe for the clafoutis she grew up making. Banana diversity in India makes the fruit ubiquitous and vital to the country's culture, as anthropologist Deepa Reddy explains. Kate Lebo's curiosity about fruit is endless, despite all the pits and its brief window of ripeness.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Evan Klyman and you're listening to good food.
0:05.0	It's Memorial Day weekend, which means here in Los Angeles,
0:09.0	the fruit is good.
0:12.0	Strawberries and cherries are peaking, apricots are trickling in, mulberries are here.
0:18.0	You can't walk a mile in this city without spotting a tree full of bright orange ripe low quats,
0:23.4	so it feels like the right moment to open
0:26.2	Abra Barron's latest book, Pulp.
0:28.6	It's the follow-up to her book's roughage,
0:31.1	all about vegetables, and grist, which was all about vegetables and grist which was all about grains and beans.
0:37.0	Pulp offers us exactly what the subtitle says, a practical guide to cooking with fruit.
0:43.0	Hi, Abra.
0:44.2	Hi, thanks so much.
0:46.2	Oh, it's always such a pleasure to have you.
0:48.7	We love your books.
0:51.2	When I got the book, the first thing I did was I went to the index to look for low quats and then I
0:57.2	realized that your Midwestern background deeply informs this book like all others so
1:02.4	there's not a citrus chapter, for example, either.
1:06.3	I can't think of a more Midwestern fruit than cherries.
1:09.6	We get them for such a relatively short season, especially the sour cherries, that it would be lovely
1:16.6	to have suggestions on how to exploit the brief season.
1:21.2	The way each chapter is organized is you begin with raw and then savory and sweet options.
1:28.1	So what are the raw savory options for cherries? So the raw savory option is a brined cherry, which I really love because it was again kind of this experiment in exploring. We have so many of these things and yet our
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