Amazing Vegetable and Herb Stories
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Fascinated by your vegetable garden and edible plants, discover their story!
This unusual foray into the past of edible plants gives full meaning to the ever-growing interest in heritage varieties.
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Fascinated by your vegetable garden and edible plants, discover their story!
This unusual foray into the past of edible plants gives full meaning to the ever-growing interest in heritage varieties.
Description
Did you know that tomatoes were tropical vines whose fruits were not always red?
That cabbages grew in bushes?
That beans were once toxic?
Exploring the history of the plants we eat reveals their astonishing evolutions. Since their original environment is largely located in tropical latitudes, we understand that our vegetables and herbs have traveled extensively in the luggage of explorers and horticulturists.
We thus discover, in a different light, the journey of more than fifty plant species such as tomatoes, potatoes, corn, arugula and basil. This unusual foray into the past of edible plants gives full meaning to the ever-growing interest in heritage varieties.
We must also salute the work of the gardeners of yesteryear, to whom we owe the remarkable diversity of herbs and vegetables present on our plates today.
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Author: Bertrand Dumont
Edition: EDITIONS MULTIMONDES
Publication: May 27, 2020
Pages: 300
ISBN : 978-2-8977-320-42
French language
Supple cover
Size: 13,97 x 21,59 cm (5,5 x 8,5 in)
Further information
| Weight | 0.33 kg |
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| Size | 22x14x2 cm |
