Feijoa By Kate Evans
A story of obsession and belonging
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- Category: Boost All, Gift Ideas, Gifts for Grandma & Nana, Gifts for Mum, Wife & Girlfriend Gifts, Women's Gifts
Inspired by a personal obsession with this singular exotic fruit, Feijoa is asweeping, global tale about the dance between people and plants – how we needeach other, how we change each other, and the surprising ways certain speciesmake their way into our imaginations, our stomachs, and our hearts.
The feijoa comes from the highlands of Southern Brazil and the valleys ofUruguay, where it was woven into indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cultures. It wasscientifically named in Berlin, acclimatised on the French Riviera, and failedto make its fortune in California. Today, it is celebrated by one small town inthe Colombian Andes, and has become an icon of community and nationhood in NewZealand.
Of the world's roughly 30,000 edible plant species, only around 150 arenow cultivated for human consumption. Most of those were domesticated hundredsor thousands of years ago, but feijoas are among only a handful of plants thathave made this journey from the wild to the orchard in the last few generations,providing a rare opportunity to watch, up close, the myriad ways plantsseduce us.
Feijoa is a book about connection. Between people and plants, betweenindividuals, between cultures, across disciplines – it celebrates the waysour lives and loves intersect in surprising ways.
Inspired by a personal obsession with this singular exotic fruit, Feijoa is asweeping, global tale about the dance between people and plants – how we needeach other, how we change each other, and the surprising ways certain speciesmake their way into our imaginations, our stomachs, and our hearts.
The feijoa comes from the highlands of Southern Brazil and the valleys ofUruguay, where it was woven into indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cultures. It wasscientifically named in Berlin, acclimatised on the French Riviera, and failedto make its fortune in California. Today, it is celebrated by one small town inthe Colombian Andes, and has become an icon of community and nationhood in NewZealand.
Of the world's roughly 30,000 edible plant species, only around 150 arenow cultivated for human consumption. Most of those were domesticated hundredsor thousands of years ago, but feijoas are among only a handful of plants thathave made this journey from the wild to the orchard in the last few generations,providing a rare opportunity to watch, up close, the myriad ways plantsseduce us.
Feijoa is a book about connection. Between people and plants, betweenindividuals, between cultures, across disciplines – it celebrates the waysour lives and loves intersect in surprising ways.
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