The Fruits of Fairchild is a response to Daniel Stone’s book The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats. Americans are well familiar with the fruits selected for this piece which include, from the top: dates from Iraq, peaches from China, papaya from Ceylon, avocado from Chile, pomegranate from Malta, citron from Corsica, and lastly, Fairchild’s favorite fruit, the Mangosteen from Indonesia, in the center.