A Curious History of Vegetables · Aphrodisiacal and Healing Properties, Folk Tales, Garden Tips, and Recipes

A Curious History of Vegetables · Aphrodisiacal and Healing Properties, Folk Tales, Garden Tips, and Recipes
Authors
Storl, Wolf-Dieter
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Tags
gardening , ckb085000 cooking , specific ingredients , vegetables
ISBN
9781623170394
Date
2016-06-14T00:00:00+00:00
Size
10.12 MB
Lang
en
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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 45 well known and rare vegetables, examining their history, symbolism, astrological connections, healing properties, and overall character.

A fascinating introduction to vegetable gardening and cooking, The 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.