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Vegetables
Evelyne Bloch-Dano
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Description for Vegetables
Paperback. Offers biographies of eleven different vegetables - artichokes, beans, chard, cabbage, cardoons, carrots, chili peppers, Jerusalem artichokes, peas, pumpkins, and tomatoes that 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. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmers' 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 a long tradition of farming and gardening, nurturing and breeding. In this charming book, those veggies finally get their due. In capsule biographies of eleven different vegetables - artichokes, ... Read more
From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmers' 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 a long tradition of farming and gardening, nurturing and breeding. In this charming book, those veggies finally get their due. In capsule biographies of eleven different vegetables - artichokes, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226059952
SKU
V9780226059952
Shipping Time
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99-1
About Evelyne Bloch-Dano
Evelyne Bloch-Dano is the author of many books, including Madame Proust: A Biography, which is also published by the University of Chicago Press. Teresa Lavender Fagan has translated many books, including J. M. G. Le Clezio's The Mexican Dream.
Reviews for Vegetables
"A lovely book that makes you feel at once hungry for these plants and satiated by the knowledge you just reaped about them." (Audobon) "Quirky... entertaining... Evelyne Bloch-Dano's book confirms that we are what we eat, and that vegetables, like Bloch-Dano's gardens, are firmly rooted in the realm of imagination." (Times Literary Supplement) "Evelyne Bloch-Dano displays here erudite command of ... Read more