The carrot purple : and other curious stories of the food we eat / Joel S. Denker.
The carrot purple : and other curious stories of the food we eat / Joel S. Denker.
The carrot purple : and other curious stories of the food we eat / Joel S. Denker.
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Publisher
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
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G 2015/4421
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Publication information
Publisher
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
[2015]
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Summary
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 century. After surveying paintings from this era in the...
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The carrot purple : and other curious stories of the food we eat / Joel S. Denker.
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Rowman & Littlefield studies in food and gastronomy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/4421
Record Identifier
74VKzDVrJVOM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzDVrJVOM
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ISBN
9781442248854 hardcover alkaline paper
1442248858 hardcover alkaline paper
DDC
641.3
MMS ID
991023340129702626
