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"With great humor, a love of detail and the kind of curiosity that opens one roomful of questions after another, Brantley's The Perfect Fruit leads us through the history of plums, the San Joaquin Valley, fruit breeding and the deep connections between food and love."

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September 27, 2009
Amherst Books
Amherst, MA


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Bloomsbury USA is the publisher of The Perfect Fruit.

I've written some Slate shopping columns about the best remedies for snoring, bee stings, and heartburn. I've also hunted for the best Web-based task managerand the best sippy cup

The cooking Web site I co-founded is called Cookthink.

My wife, Elizabeth Hughey, won the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her first book, Sunday Houses the Sunday House, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2007.

Friends of ours own a bar-with-good-food in Turners Falls, MA. It's called The Rendezvous and is the site of many excellent concerts, shows and readings.

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