Foreign Fruit is a memoir which explores Katie’s experience growing up and existing as a mixed heritage person in the north of Ireland, but also documents alongside this personal narrative a history of the orange; how the fruit moved from East to West, gaining and shedding symbolic meaning along the way.
You can find the previous Lecker episode about citrus, Oranges and Lemons, linked here.
Lecker is now part of Heritage Radio Network! Find out more about this independent podcast network dedicated to food, beverages and the culinary world and discover their many fantastic shows at heritageradionetwork.org.
You can find a transcript for this episode at leckerpodcast.com.
Foreign Fruit is out now. Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list. [aff link]
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