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Vegetables: A Biography
Evelyne Bloch-Dano
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Description for Vegetables: A Biography
Hardcover. Includes capsule biographies of eleven different vegetables - artichokes, beans, parsnips, cabbage, cardoons, carrots, chili peppers, Jerusalem artichokes, peas, pumpkins, and tomatoes. This title explores the world of vegetables in all its facets, from science and agriculture to history, culture, and, of course, cooking. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: WB; WMPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
From Michael Pollan to locavores, from Whole Foods to farmers' markets nationwide, cooks and foodies today are paying more attention than ever 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 farmers' market or a backyard plot, the humble vegetable offers more than just nutrition-it also represents a link with a long tradition of farming and gardening, nurturing and breeding. In this charming new book, veggies finally get their due. In capsule biographies of eleven different vegetables - artichokes, beans, parsnips, cabbage, cardoons, ... Read more
From Michael Pollan to locavores, from Whole Foods to farmers' markets nationwide, cooks and foodies today are paying more attention than ever 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 farmers' market or a backyard plot, the humble vegetable offers more than just nutrition-it also represents a link with a long tradition of farming and gardening, nurturing and breeding. In this charming new book, veggies finally get their due. In capsule biographies of eleven different vegetables - artichokes, beans, parsnips, cabbage, cardoons, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226059945
SKU
V9780226059945
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Evelyne Bloch-Dano
Evelyne Bloch-Dano is the author of many books, including Madame Proust: A Biography, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Teresa Lavender Fagan has translated many books, including books by Nobel Prize winner J. M. G. Le Clezio.
Reviews for Vegetables: A Biography
"This allusive, impressionistic tour of the kitchen garden takes us from aphrodisiac artichokes to Zola's gritty market stalls, with many a literary and gustatory detour. Lazy summers in grandmother's garden, the frenzy for fresh winter peas that gripped the court at Versailles in 1660, the global travels of the chili pepper, the contested history of Cinderella's pumpkin-it's all here, and ... Read more