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All right, Sarah.

We are at the entrance to a park.

Yes.

At an undisclosed location somewhere in the New York metro area.

Yes.

I would like to ask you to please read the email that you sent me that has brought us here today.

Sure.

Do you think sporkful listeners are pumped for pawpaw season?

Maybe a few, but a lot of the people have no idea what paupas are. Papa lovers are just about the biggest nerds out there,

and I'm one of them. So much so that I wrote an entire cookbook about pawpaws, the pocket

Papa cookbook. It explores the ends and outs of gathering and preparing North America's largest native fruit,

which is not as straightforward as it seems. Paupas are tricky in the kitchen. You can't buy them in

stores. Occasionally, they cause people to vomit. But besides the rare instances of vomiting,

paupas are truly beguiling. They're aromatic custody and reminiscent of tropical fruit like mangoes and bananas. I make a mean pa-paw-lossi. Pappas grow all over the place in Ohio where I live. To my knowledge, there's only one paw-paw patch in the New York City area. It's a quasi-secret, but through careful Google searches and tips from the grapevine, I sussed out where it is.

What if I came to New York and took you there to go papa hunting?

I wouldn't want the actual location revealed on the show in order to keep Yahoo's from raiding it.

Also, mysteries are more fun.

So, Sarah, you're in from Ohio.

Here we are.

Here we are.

I think there's only one thing left to do.

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