亚当·李斯·格尔纳
http://www.adamgollner.com
现居加拿大蒙特利尔。耗费数年周游世界探访地下水果世界。他是《纽约时报》、《美食家》、《好胃口》、《GOOD》等杂志的撰稿人。曾经担任《VICE》杂志的编辑。他还是个音乐人,并筹拍自己的独立电影。《水果猎人》是他的第一本著作,并即将被搬上银幕,由著名导演文德斯监督,《沿江而上(Up the YangZi River)》华裔导演张侨勇导演。
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Journalist Gollner's debut is a rollicking account of the world of fruit and fruit fanatics. He's traveled to many countries in search of exotic fruits, and he describes in sensuous detail some of the hundreds of varieties he's sampled, among them peanut butter fruit, blackberry-jam fruit and coco-de-mer—a suggestively shaped coconut known as the lady fruit that grows only in the Seychelles. Equally intriguing are some of the characters he has encountered—a botanist in Borneo who spends his life studying malodorous durians; fruitarians who believe that a fruit diet promotes transcendental experiences; fruitleggers who bypass import laws; and fruit inventors such as the fabricator of the Grapple—which looks like an apple and tastes like a grape. The FDA and the often dubious activities of the international fruit trade, multinational corporations like Chiquita, come in for scrutiny, as does New York City's largest wholesale produce market, in a chapter with more information than one may want on biochemical growth inhibitors, hormone-based retardants, dyes, waxes and corrupt USDA inspectors. Gollner's passion for fruit is infectious, and his fascinating book is a testament to the fact that there is much more to the world of fruit than the bland varieties on our supermarket shelves. (May)
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Review
"The Fruit Hunters is a delectable journey through jungles, street markets and orchards in search of the world' s most exotic fruits. Gollner' s quest for the forbidden coco-de-mer, his love affair with the chupa-chupa and his durian-induced intoxication make him as fascinating a narrator as the fruit hunters, farmers and scientists he encounters along the way. I loved taking this culinary adventure with Gollner -- anyone who brings mangost eens to parties is welcome at my table." -- Amy Stewart, author of Flower Confidential
"We have swooned with delight over Michigan's late-summer Bing cherries, but such moments of roadside pleasure pale in comparison to the passions that drive fruit hunters to discover and nurture exotics never found in supermarkets. Oh, how we would love to suck on a miracle berry of Africa and savor a tiger-striped fig! Adam Leith Gollner's mesmerizing account of fruits that are rare or commercial, erotic or medicinal, and of the sometimes nutty characters who care about them provokes righteous indignation over how much we are denied as well as a ravenous appetite to taste it. " -- Jane and Michael Stern, authors of Roadfood
"Adam Leith Gollner is the best kind of monomaniac. Hess a writer in love with his subject, an obsessive chasing after obsessives. And what a fruitful Eden this Adam has discovered: the global underworld of rare-fruit aficionados, fruitarians, fruit smugglers and fruit detectives. Lyrical and well informed, exuberant and erudite and recounted with aptly ripe turns of phrase, The Fruit Hunters is the heartfelt and always fascinating story of the quest for the sweetest prizes the natural world has to offer". -- Taras Grescoe, author of Bottomfeeder and The Devil's Picnic
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评分还是更想看到历史学家而非记者/自由撰稿人处理这样的问题——荤段子多了点
评分还是更想看到历史学家而非记者/自由撰稿人处理这样的问题——荤段子多了点
评分还是更想看到历史学家而非记者/自由撰稿人处理这样的问题——荤段子多了点
评分还是更想看到历史学家而非记者/自由撰稿人处理这样的问题——荤段子多了点
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