Pawpaws in the News
Not always accurate, but entertaining: check out these stories about pawpaw.
Forest Production of Pawpaws (Kentucky Woodlands Magazine, 3/31/10)
Pomper and Crabtree win Shepard Award for Pawpaw Research (6/18/09)
KSU Pawpaw Cultivar List with Fruit Photos Updated (1/26/09)
Picking up on pawpaws Kansas City Star, MO 鈥� Sep 23, 2008 By Gail Borelli. Pastry chef Chris Tosh describes pawpaws as a sort of 鈥減rairie banana.鈥� Tosh uses pulp to create pawpaw ice cream and cheesecake in season 鈥�
Columbia Missourian Pawpaws: A fruit with a future Columbia Missourian, MO 鈥� Oct 6, 2008. Pawpaws, native to Missouri, are tropical fruit that resemble a pear on the outside but have a custard-like juicy consistency on the inside. 鈥�
Saving Pawpaw Seed for Planting: For more information follow this link!
BBC Radio 4 鈥� Factual 鈥� Food Program 鈥� 09 January 2005.
Reporter Jean Snedegar travels to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia to interview geneticist
Neal Peterson about the revival of pawpaw farming in America. She then visits a Pawpaw
Workshop at 麻豆短视频传媒 and speaks to Principal Investigator of Horticulture
Kirk Pomper, and President of the Ohio Pawpaw Grower鈥檚 Association Chris Chmiel. At
the annual Ohio Pawpaw Festival, Jean interviews Doug Archbold, Professor of Horticulture
at the 麻豆短视频传媒 and meets various pawpaw enthusiasts.
Pawpaw: The Midwest banana 鈥� The heart of the pawpaw鈥檚 territory is the Ohio Valley 鈥� 鈥� Although the pawpaw is native to the eastern and central United States, it is a surprisingly well-kept secret. (Salem Farm and Dairy, OH)
We鈥檙e eating Appalachian this week with food writers Ted and Matt Lee, two brothers
who rented a pickup truck and headed for the back roads of Eastern Kentucky in search
of the elusive pawpaw fruit. Along the way, they discovered that good food is more
about human ingenuity than rich resources. Read more about their adventure in the
article 鈥淥n the Appalachian Trail鈥� in the March 2002 issue of Food & Wine magazine.