The Fruit Detective

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Jul 14th 2006 @ 12:09PM

I had almost forgotten about an old New Yorker profile of David Karp, Fruit Detective, until Bad Things posted a link to it along with a new Karp article on heirloom strawberries. As his title suggests, Karp is an investigator of fruits, a scout for specialty stores and a writer. By all accounts, he's very passionate, some would say crazed, about finding and tasting rare or outstanding fruit specimens. The strawberry piece finds him following a horticulturist around fields outside of Miami in search of new crossbreeds of prized musk strawberries. The photo of Karp comes from a short Smithsonian interview, wherein he explains the pith helmet, among other things.

Filed Under: Farming, Magazines, On the Blogs, Ingredients
Tags: david karp, fruit, fruit detective, FruitDetective, heirloom, interview, musk, rare, straberries