{"id":17147,"date":"2023-03-31T14:21:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T21:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=17147"},"modified":"2023-03-31T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T21:21:05","slug":"the-perfect-fruit-by-chip-brantley-a-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/the-perfect-fruit-by-chip-brantley-a-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Fruit by Chip Brantley: a book review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Growing up, I liked plums. In the summer, I would jump out of the swimming pool at my grandparents&#8217; house to eat a few from their tree. Once I had a yard of my own that came with a plum tree, I was angry when squirrels stole most of them. But I have never planted a new plum tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have, however, planted numerous pluot trees. (Plum + Apricot = Pluot.) They are my favorite stone fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My brother calls pluots: &#8220;plums perfected.&#8221; Chip Brantley wrote a book called,&nbsp;<em>The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds, and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a conversion story and a story of discovery. Brantley was bouncing around trying to find his way in life when he met Elizabeth, who would become &#8220;the one,&#8221; and then a few weeks later he met pluots. &#8220;All of my earlier dabbling felt like preparation for this moment . . . I felt compelled to know everything about pluots . . . They were my Thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Perfect Fruit<\/em>&nbsp;is the product of a young man with an obsession who turned his inexhaustable zeal for all things pluot into a benefit for the rest of us. He could have just gobbled up the fruit and learned about their history and met the farmers who grew them, but instead he kept notes and wrote a book which I just gobbled up for the second time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had read&nbsp;<em>The Perfect Fruit<\/em>&nbsp;some years back. It was published in 2009. A couple weeks ago, I picked it off my shelf, opened it up&nbsp;and then couldn&#8217;t stop reading. I enjoyed the book even more this second round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brantley takes you on a famous fruit tasting tour of Zaiger Genetics, and you get to know Floyd Zaiger, who bred the pluots we grow today.\u00a0Get to know Luther Burbank as well, who crossed plums and apricots before Zaiger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/emerald-drop-and-geopride-pluots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/emerald-drop-and-geopride-pluots.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17160\" width=\"542\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/emerald-drop-and-geopride-pluots.jpg 542w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/emerald-drop-and-geopride-pluots-480x357.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 542px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pluots come in different colors: Emerald Drop and Geo Pride (both developed by Floyd Zaiger).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Take many drives with Brantley around California&#8217;s Central Valley, where all of the pluot action takes place. Brantley gives the reader a sharp sense of what the Valley looks and feels like. You may have driven along the 5 to the Bay Area or along the 99 to the Sierras but have not known the story of the trees that line the shoulders, some of which are pluots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brantley also brings you into conversations with farmers of pluots and their internal marketing struggles, harvesting challenges, and even family squabbles. Brantley\u00a0puts human faces on the vast acreage of Central Valley fruit trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brantley himself is a writer, not a grower. Nevertheless, he gets all of the horticulture stuff right. It is a pleasure to read someone who is gifted with words and narrative while simultaneously careful about\u00a0the accuracy of technical details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/flavor-grenade-broken-branch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/flavor-grenade-broken-branch.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17150\" width=\"440\" height=\"419\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flavor Grenade is a Zaiger creation that has explosive flavor and crisp texture, yet will fruit itself to destruction if you don&#8217;t thin the fruit enough, as my tree did in 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To me, the most interesting farmer in the book is Rob Mazuna. He is a small-time operator, on only ten acres, but &#8220;his orchard was like a . . . stone fruit&#8217;s greatest hits.&#8221; He sold his peaches and pluots at a farmer&#8217;s market so he wasn&#8217;t restricted to varieties that had large size or could be picked green or had showy skin colors. He grew the best eating varieties only. &#8220;I just plant what I like and when it&#8217;s time to pick for the market, I pick what&#8217;s ready,&#8221; said Mazuna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mazuna celebrates flavor, the eating of pluots, and this book by Chip Brantley is, overall, a celebration of eating the best fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of farmers in Brantley&#8217;s book name Flavor King as the best pluot variety even though none of the large-scale farmers grow it to sell because it doesn&#8217;t have the commercial qualities they need. One farmer, Rod Milton, nevertheless keeps thirty trees of Flavor King on his farm. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to have it. I&#8217;ve just got to have it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I grow Flavor King. It is that good. My grandmother grows Flavor King, because it&#8217;s that good. Try finding some at a farmer&#8217;s market in August; otherwise, grow your own. It might be the perfect fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/flavor-king-pluots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/flavor-king-pluots.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17151\" width=\"471\" height=\"458\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flavor Kings on my tree in 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are links to Chip Brantley&#8217;s <em>The Perfect Fruit<\/em> at\u00a0\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/perfect-fruit-chip-brantley\/1101904814\">Barnes and Noble<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Perfect-Fruit-Breeding-Seeds-Elusive\/dp\/1596913819\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You might also like to read <a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/thank-you-floyd-zaiger\/\">my post on Floyd Zaiger<\/a>, who passed away in 2020, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/highway-99\/\">my post on Highway 99<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also check out my post:\u00a0\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/growing-pluots-in-southern-california\/\">&#8220;Growing pluots in Southern California.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Within it is a video profile I made of the Flavor King and Dapple Dandy varieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>All of my Yard Posts are listed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/list-of-yard-posts\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you find my Yard Posts helpful, and I appreciate your&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/supporting-the-yard-posts\/\"><strong>support<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;so I can continue to make them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, I liked plums. 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