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The Pear King

From: Lost Feast

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In this chapter Newman reflects on the history of her favorite fruit, the pear. She explores the act of domestication, the shift from small scale local production and the evolution to the large-scale production needed for the modern global agricultural systems and explore the loss of varieties over the past centuries, highlighting the loss of the ‘arsault pear,’ one which was soft enough to spread on bread.

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Lenore Newman

Lenore Newman is the Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Environment at the University of the Fraser Valley. She is the author of the acclaimed Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey. She divides her time between Vancouver and Roberts Creek, British Columbia.