The carrot purple and other curious stories of the food we eat /

"How many otherwise well-educated readers know that the familiar orange carrot was once a novelty? It is a little more than 400 years old. Domesticated in Afghanistan in 900 AD, the purple carrot, in fact, was the dominant variety until Dutch gardeners bred the young upstart in the seventeenth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Denker, Joel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
Colección:Studies in food and gastronomy.
Temas:
Food > Anecdotes.
Food crops > Anecdotes.
Vegetables > Anecdotes.
Fruit > Anecdotes.
Cooking > Anecdotes.
Aliments > Anecdotes.
Cultures vivrières > Anecdotes.
Légumes > Anecdotes.
Fruits > Anecdotes.
COOKING > General.
Cooking
Food
Food crops
Fruit
Vegetables
Anecdotes
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anise : The allure of anise
  • Apricot : "Moon of the Faith" : appreciating the apricot
  • Artichoke : The artichoke "undressed"
  • Arugula : The "lascivious leaf" : the lure of arugula
  • Asparagus : Asparagus : scents and non-scents
  • Avocado : The "Butter Pear" : The mysterious avocado
  • Banana : The "Curiosity of the Indies" : The baffling banana
  • Basil : Holy basil
  • Broccoli : "It's not broccoli. It's Andy Boy"
  • Cabbage : Head of its class : the cabbage
  • Caper : The wild caper
  • Cardamom : From Arabia to Scandinavia : a cardamom chronicle
  • Carrot : The carrot purple
  • Cashew : The nutty fruit : the captivating cashew
  • Celery : The celery cure
  • Chickpea : The battle over the bean : the puzzling chickpea
  • Chocolate : "Food of the Gods" : chocolate
  • Cinnamon : "Sweet wood" : Cinnamon
  • Clove : The "Nail incense" : uncovering the clove
  • Coffee : The "Wine of the bean" : Coffee
  • Coriander : Saved from the "Two-headed serpent" : the coriander cure
  • Cranberry : The "Bitter berry" : reclaiming the cranberry
  • Cucumber : The "Bilious" cowcumber : cool as a cucumber
  • Cumin : Hidden punch : cumin's untold story
  • Dill : A fine feathered friend : the wonders of dill
  • Eggplant : The "Mad apple" : the terrifying eggplant
  • Fennel : The truth about Finocchio : fragrant fennel
  • Garlic : The "Stinking rose" : the glories of garlic
  • Lentil : "Poor man's meat" : the lentil
  • Mint : Vigor and venery : the story of mint
  • Nutmeg : The "Harem tree" : nutmeg
  • Olive : "A taste as old as cold water" : the story of the olive
  • Onion : Knowing your onions
  • Orange : Sweet for sour oranges
  • Papaya : The "Fruit of angels" : the papaya
  • Peanut : Found a peanut
  • Pear : Gift of the gods : the pear
  • Pepper, black : Hot commodity : a pepper story
  • Pineapple : Yes, we have no ananas : the pineapple
  • Pistachio : The princely pistachio
  • Pomegranate : Persephone's temptation : the seductive pomegranate
  • Potato : The "White truffle" : the perplexing potato
  • Saffron : Hunting for gold : the saga of saffron
  • Spinach : The "Prince of leafy greens" : Spinach
  • Strawberry : Sex and the single strawberry
  • Sweet potato : "Candy from the field" : the sweet potato
  • Tomato : "Homegrown tomatoes"
  • Vanilla : The scent of vanilla
  • Walnut : Cracking the walnut
  • Watermelon : "What the angels eat" : the watermelon.

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