Books by Chip Brantley

4. The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds, and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot by Chip Brantley.  There is now a "go-to" book on the pluot and this is it.  It explains why plums vary so much in quality, why plums are usually bad these days, how the pluot was intended as a replacement, and why some stores call them plumcots.  I paid attention the whole way through.