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In The Book of Difficult Fruit, author Kate Lebo regularly references the Doctrine of Signatures, ancient theory found in multiple cultures that one can glean the medicinal properties of plants by the part of the body they resemble. God made it easy for us, the theory goes, and made flowers that look like eyes to treat eye infections, plants with red extracts for the blood, and womb-shaped fruit for birth. It’s pseudoscience of the highest order, but the point is not whether it works, but what it means that this logic held sway for so long. It’s not that fruit cures liver disease. It’s...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn April is showering us with an abundance of books. • 26 min read Escape into 34 books this April April showers bring May flowers. Well, this April is showering us with an abundance of verdant and colorful books, all delighting the senses like an unexpected flower patch. Novels translated from Italian and German, memoirs about murder and massacres, hilarious essay collections, poignant short stories and many food-themed tomes combine to give us a rainbow collection of fantastic literary fun. If only the rain w...

I t's a testament to Kate Lebo's curiosity, knowledge and sheer writing chops that she can spend a chapter describing something as tasting "like peaches laced with onions and garbage" and smelling "a little like turpentine" and you'll want to merrily try some for yourself — laughing all the way. Of course, you probably won't get the 38-year-old Lebo to join for another round of the spikey fruit called a durian, grown primarily in Southeast Asia and only found through some digging through Spokane's Asian grocery stores. The author of The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, ...