商品簡介
Here are served 28 unadorned papers on a topics relating to vegetables from an array of perspectives. They include the first scientific defense of a vegetarian diet, the Roman vegetable garden, the carrot purple, an edible wild thistle from the Lebanese mountains, the role of vegetables in conquering space, the American pumpkin, visual delights from the vegetable kingdoms of Italy, English kitchen gardens and the vegetable cookery they imply 1650-1800, and a vegetable zodiac from late antique Alexandria. Contributors are identified only by name. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
