Plants Edible

Health benefits of pulses

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This book provides a global overview of pulse intake and future trends from a variety of perspectives. Pulses, which include dried beans, peas and lentils, are second only to grains as a source of food for the world's population. Contributors from around the globe explore a numb…

Cassava: New Potential for a Neglected Crop

by Cock, James H.

fromIADS development-oriented literature series

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In this book, the author brings together the latest information on improved strains, modem production systems, better processing methods, innovations in storage and marketing, and the prospects for using cassava to produce fuel alcohol.

Tropical fruits and other edible plants of the world: an illustrated guide

by Blancke, Rolf

fromZona Tropical Publications

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"Illustrated with photographs taken on location in the plants' natural environment, this field guide describes more than three hundred species of tropical and subtropical species of fruits, tubers, and spices"--

Tropical fruits and other edible plants of the world: an illustrated guide

by Blancke, Rolf

fromZona Tropical Publications

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Tropical fruits such as banana, mango, papaya, and pineapple are familiar and treasured staples of our diets, and consequently of great commercial importance, but there are many other interesting species that are little known to inhabitants of temperate regions. What delicacies …

Ethnobotany in the new Europe: people, health, and wild plant resources

by Pieroni, Andrea, Puri, Rajindra K., Pardo de Santayana, Manuel

fromStudies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology

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Interest in environmental anthropology has grown steadily in recent years, reflecting national and international concern about the environment and developing research priorities, This major new international series is a vehicle for publishing up-to-date monographs and edited wor…

Edible plants: a photographic survey of the wild edible botanica…

by Fike, Jimmy W.

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"For over a decade, artist Jimmy Fike traveled across the continental United States in an epic effort to photograph wild edible flora. Edible Plants is the culmination of that journey, featuring over 100 photographs that Fike has selectively colorized to highlight the comestible…

Edible plants: a photographic survey of the wild edible botanica…

by Fike, Jimmy W.

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"For over a decade, artist Jimmy Fike traveled across the continental United States in an epic effort to photograph wild edible flora. Edible Plants is the culmination of that journey, featuring over 100 photographs that Fike has selectively colorized to highlight the comestible…

Edible plants: a photographic survey of the wild edible botanica…

by Fike, Jimmy W.

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"Featuring over 100 photographs that Fike has selectively colorized to highlight the comestible part of the plant. While the images initially appear to be scientific illustrations or photograms from the dawn of photography when plants were placed directly on sensitized paper and…

Edible plants and animals: unusual foods from aardvark to zamia

by Livingston, A. D., Livingston, Helen

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Provides facts and information about 500 unusual plants and animals which can be used by man as food.

The ongoing Columbian exchange: stories of biological and economic transfer in wo…

by Cumo, Christopher

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"Most people have only the vaguest notion of how profoundly the world was changed by Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. Indeed, some of what is commonly regarded as 'traditional' Native American life and culture--living in teepees and hunting buffalo from horseback,…