Vegetables: a Biography
From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmer's markets, today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens--and especially to vegetables. Whether it's an heirloom tomato, curled cabbage, or succulent squash, from a farmer's market or a backyard plot, the humble vegetable offers more than just nutrition--it also represents a link with long tradition of farming and gardening, nurturing and breeding. .In thi…
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- Full title :Vegetables : a Biography / Evelyne Bloch-Dano ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
Summary
From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmer's markets, today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens--and especially to vegetables. Whether it's an heirloom tomato, curled cabbage, or succulent squash, from a farmer's market or a backyard plot, the humble vegetable offers more than just nutrition--it also represents a link with long tradition of farming and gardening, nurturing and breeding. .In this charming new book, those veggies finally get their due. In capsule biographies of eleven different v.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (124 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780226059969, 0226059960, 128012654X, 9781280126543
- oclc:ocn782880134
- LC Classification:SB320.5 .
- Dewey Decimal:635
Table of Contents
Recipes; Translator's Notes; Introduction: From Grandma's Garden to the Université populaire du goût; A Little History; Good to Eat, Good to Think Abo; A Matter of Taste; Some Vegetable Histories; The Cardoon and the Arctic; The Jerusalem Artichoke; The Cabbage; The Parsnip; The Carrot; The Pea; The Tomato; The Bean; The Pumpkin; The Chili Pepper; Acknowledgments; A Biographer of Vegetables, by Michel Onfray; Bibliography.
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