Edible: The Illustrated Guide to the World's Food Plants
- ISBN-10
- 1740481054
- ISBN-13
- 9781740481052
- Category
- Plants, Edible
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Authors
- Barbara Santich, Limited, Geoff Bryant
Description
This book invites readers on a sumptuously illustrated walk through the world garden to discover the story of some 250 food plants from field to table. Illustrated with more than 500 images and written by top international horticultural and culinary experts, the sumptuous Edible explores the origins, history, and contemporary cultural and culinary uses of fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, beverage plants, herbs, and spices. A rich introduction begins the book, revealing early agriculture and our "green" future. Then an eight-chapter "Food Directory" cameos individual plants, with reader friendly layouts framing each entry's biography, botanical description, culinary role, and healing powers. In addition to the lively and authoritative narrative, Edible intrigues readers with layers of information: literary quotes, boxes on ancient origins of exotic foods, political underpinnings, nutritional values, longstanding remedies, and more. Tantalizing anecdotes dip into such diverse topics as the Japanese Cherry Festival; cacao, Mayan "food of the gods;" and the 17th-century Nutmeg Wars, which determined New York's future. A glossary and index complete the book. Geoff Bryant is a New Zealand based horticultural writer and photographer. This "sumptuous" book explores the origins, history, and contemporary culinary uses of almost 500 fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, beverage plants, herbs and spices.
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Other editions
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- 2014
- 267 pages
- Paperback
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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- 2008
- 360 pages
- Paperback
- National Geographic Books
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