A Curious History of Vegetables - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Curious History of Vegetables write by Wolf D. Storl. This book was released on 2016-06-14. A Curious History of Vegetables available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring gardening tips, recipes, and beautiful full-color pencil drawings of each vegetable, this book for farm-to-fork aficionados and gardeners with an esoteric bent explores the secret history of 48 well known and rare vegetables, examining their symbolism, astrological connections, healing properties, and overall character. A fascinating introduction to vegetable gardening and cooking, A Curious History of Vegetables sets horticulture in its historical, cultural, and cosmological contexts. The author offers his deep understanding of the theory of biodynamic gardening and useful tips on light and warmth, ground covers, composts, crop rotation and weeds. Woven in with folk tales and stories from history, each entry also includes delicious historical recipes for each vegetable.
How Carrots Won the Trojan War
How Carrots Won the Trojan War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Carrots Won the Trojan War write by Rebecca Rupp. This book was released on 2011-01-01. How Carrots Won the Trojan War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looks at the history of vegetables and vegetable gardening.
Spade, Skirret and Parsnip
Spade, Skirret and Parsnip - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spade, Skirret and Parsnip write by Bill Laws. This book was released on 2006-03-01. Spade, Skirret and Parsnip available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History of gardening
Pumpkin
Pumpkin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pumpkin write by Cindy Ott. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Pumpkin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any historic ties to the crop. In this fascinating cultural and natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning with the myth of the first Thanksgiving, she shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to fulfull their desire to maintain connections to nature and to the family farm of lore, and, ironically, how small farms and rural communities have been revitalized in the process. And while the pumpkin has inspired American myths and traditions, the pumpkin itself has changed because of the ways people have perceived, valued, and used it. Pumpkin is a smart and lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world around us.
Terrors of the Table
Terrors of the Table - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Terrors of the Table write by Walter Gratzer. This book was released on 2006-11-22. Terrors of the Table available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Terrors of the Table is an absorbing account of the struggle to find the necessary ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have always waylaid the unwary and the foolish when it comes to the matter of food and health. Walter Gratzer tells the tale of nutrition's heroes, heroines and charlatans with characteristic crispness and verve. We find an array of colourful personalities, from the distinguished but quarrelsome Liebig, to the enterprising Lydia Pinkham. But we also find the slow recognition that the lack of vital ingredients can cause terrible illnesses - scurvy, rickets, beriberi. These diseases stalked the poor in the West even into the 20th century, and scandalously remain in poorer parts of the world today. The narrative stretches from classical times to the modern day and gives a valuable historical perspective to our current understanding. It also highlights some of the problems faced by the developed world regarding health today - in particular diabetes and obesity. And despite our far greater understanding of what our body needs, there are still many who would fall for fads and fancy diets - some dangerous, others just daft. Of course, the story of nutrition does not end there. We have discovered the key vitamins and minerals our body needs, but research continues on the connections between diet, health and disease. The body's biochemistry is complex, and there are no easy answers, no magic formula, that applies to all individuals. The safest and most rational course would seem to be a sensible, moderate, and varied diet, not forgetting that 'a little of what you fancy does you good'.
