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How to Pick a Peach, May 2007
Hardcover

HOW TO PICK A PEACH
By: Russ Parsons

The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table

Houghton Mifflin
May 2007
On Sale: May 9, 2007
432 pages
ISBN: 0618463488
EAN: 9780618463480
Hardcover
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Cookbooks

Critics greeted Russ Parsons’ first book, How to Read a French Fry, with raves. The New York Times praised it for its “affable voice and intellectual clarity”; Julia Child lauded it for its “deep factual information.” Now in How to Pick a Peach, Parsons takes on one of the hottest food topics today. Good cooking starts with the right ingredients, and nowhere is that more true than with produce. Should we refrigerate that peach? How do we cook that artichoke? And what are those different varieties of pears? Most of us aren’t sure. Parsons helps the cook sort through the produce in the market by illuminating the issues surrounding it, revealing intriguing facts about vegetables and fruits in individual profiles about them, and providing instructions on how to choose, store, and prepare these items. Whether explaining why basil, citrus, tomatoes, and potatoes should never be refrigerated, describing how Dutch farmers revolutionized the tomato business in America, exploring organic farming and its effect on flavor, or giving tips on how to recognize a ripe melon, How to Pick a Peach is Parsons at his peak.

Media Buzz

Talk of the Nation - July 20, 2007
Fresh Air - NPR - June 20, 2007