Chip Brantley

Chip Brantley wrote The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot (Bloomsbury USA, 2009) and is at work on a second book, The Pistachio Wars. A founder of the Desert Island Supply Co. and Cookthink.com, Brantley has contributed to many publications, including Slate, Gourmet, Gastronomica and the Oxford American. Brantley works as the senior lecturer in emerging media in the department of journalism at the University of Alabama. He lives in Birmingham and is married to the poet Elizabeth Hughey.