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Pulp: A Practical Guide to Cooking with Fruit

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

Pulp is a hardworking book of recipes that focuses on all the ways fruit can enhance simple, delicious mains—for example, by elevating roasted vegetables, garnishing soup, or adding perfume to a roasted pork or brisket. Unlike Ruffage and Grist, Pulp is about regularly incorporating fruit to add variety and seasonality to main dishes.

Home cooks and bakers alike will rejoice in the alternately sweet and savory recipes such as Roast 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 atmospheric photos, delivered with the can-do attitude and accessibility of the Midwestern United States. This next generous offering from beloved, trusted author Abra Berens is a necessary addition to any kitchen shelf.

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Available April 4, 2023 From:

Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Bookshop.org | Indiebound

* International Retailers Coming Soon *

Praise for this series

  • “Things in my kitchen have changed since Ruffage arrived. This organized, easygoing guide to 29 vegetables offers a few cooking methods for each one, supplemented by several variations.”
    • Kim Severson, The New York Times (named one of the 12 Best Cookbooks of Spring 2019)
  • “[Ruffage is] A total classic in the making”
    • Christina Chaey, associate editor, Bon Appetit
  • “[In Grist,] Berens encourages readers to start with ingredients they’re excited about. . . . Interspersed features highlight working farmers and their areas of specialty, serving to illustrate issues that inform Berens’s ethics and worldview.”
    • Booklist
  • “[In Grist,] Berens strolls through each category with representative methods (such as boiled, fried, and sprouted) with an eye toward variety and versatility over 125 recipes.”
    • Chicago Reader
  • Grist shortlisted for 2022 Art of Eating Prize
    • Art of Eating
  • Ruffage nominated for James Beard Award for “Vegetable-Focused Cooking”
    • James Beard Foundation, 2020
  • Ruffage is Silver Medal Winner for “Cookbooks – General”
    • Independent Publishers Book Awards, 2021

Contact

  • For media inquiries, please contact Tia Rotolo at Mona Creative:
    • tia [at] monacreative [dot] co
  • For everything else, please contact Keely Thomas-Menter at Chronicle Books:
    • Keely_ThomasMenter [at] chroniclebooks [dot] com

Thanks

Thank you to all the farmers doing the hard, often thankless work of feeding our world. Special thank you to Granor Farm for growing some of the best tasting produce, grains, and eggs. It is a dream to get to cook with such wonderful ingredients.

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