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A Curious History of Vegetables

by Wolf D. Storl
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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.
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Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 14, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9781623170400
  • File size: 11028 KB
  • Release date: June 14, 2016

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781623170400
  • File size: 11028 KB
  • Release date: June 14, 2016

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Cooking & Food Gardening History Nonfiction

Languages

English

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.
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Cooking & Food Gardening History Nonfiction