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Book North American Cornucopia

Download or read book North American Cornucopia written by Ernest Small and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many North American plants have characteristics that are especially promising as candidates for expanding our food supply and generating new economically competitive crops. This book is an informative analysis of the top 100 indigenous food plants of North America, focusing on those species that have achieved commercial success or have substantial market potential. The book's user-friendly format provides concise information on each plant. It examines the geography and ecology, history, economic and social importance, food and industrial uses, and the economic future of each crop.

Book North American Cornucopia

Download or read book North American Cornucopia written by Ernest Small and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many North American plants have characteristics that are especially promising for creating varieties needed to expand food production, and there are excellent prospects of generating new economically competitive crops from these natives. The inadequacy of current crops to meet the food demands of the world’s huge, growing population makes the potential of indigenous North American food plants even more significant. These plants can also generate crops that are more compatible with the ecology of the world, and many also have inherent health benefits. Presenting detailed scholarship, a thoroughly accessible style, and numerous entertaining anecdotes, North American Cornucopia: Top 100 Indigenous Food Plants is a full-color book dedicated to the most important 100 native food plants of North America north of Mexico that have achieved commercial success or have substantial market potential. The introductory chapter reviews the historical development of North American indigenous crops and factors bearing on their future economic success. The rest of the book consists of 100 chapters, each dedicated to a particular crop. The book employs a user-friendly chapter format that presents the material in sections offering in-depth coverage of each plant. The first section of each chapter provides information on the scientific and English names of the plants, followed by a section on the geography and ecology of the wild forms, accompanied by a map showing the North American distribution. A section entitled "Plant Portrait" comprises a basic description of the plant, its history, and its economic and social importance. This is followed by "Culinary Portrait," concerned with food uses and culinary vocabulary. The chapters then provide an analysis of the economic future of each crop, discuss notable and interesting scientific or technological observations and accomplishments, and present extensive references.

Book Atlas of American Agriculture

Download or read book Atlas of American Agriculture written by Richard Pillsbury and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the land, and the history and tradition of those who work it and traces the evolution of every major commercial crop cultivated in the U.S. Includes 320 four-color maps and photos.

Book A Cornucopia of Fruit   Vegetables

Download or read book A Cornucopia of Fruit Vegetables written by Caroline Ball and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close-up photos of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce ... these are familiar to us all through cookery books and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, is something very different - and more interesting.Thanks to intrepid explorers and plant-hunters, Britain and the rest of Europe have long enjoyed a wide and wonderful array of fruit and vegetables. Some wealthy households even created orangeries and glasshouses for tender exotics and special pits in which to raise pineapples, while tomatoes, sweetcorn and runner beans from the New World expanded the culinary repertoire. This wealth of choice attracted interest beyond the kitchen and garden. In the 1730s, a prosperous Bavarian apothecary produced the first volume of a comprehensive A to Z of all available plants, meticulously documented, and lavishly illustrated by botanical artists. 'A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables' is a glimpse into his world. It features exquisite illustrations of the edible plants in his historic treasury, allowing us to enjoy the sight of swan-necked gourds and horned lemons, smile at silkworms hovering over mulberries and delight at the quirkiness of 'strawberry spinach' ... a delicious medley of garden produce and much else.

Book Tales from the Expat Harem

Download or read book Tales from the Expat Harem written by Anastasia M. Ashman and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2006-02-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of personal writings in which twenty-nine women who have lived in Turkey over the last forty years chronicle their experiences and share their impressions of the country.

Book Cornucopia

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  • Author : Stephen Facciola
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 696 pages

Download or read book Cornucopia written by Stephen Facciola and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to fifty categories of edible plants including fruits, seeds, leaves, roots, oils. Detailed cultivar listing for 110 major crops. Taxonomic nomenclature of families, genera and species follows that of Tanaka and Kunkel. Classification of cultivars is modified ater Lewis and Hortur Third. In three sections: botanical listings, cultivar listings, and sources.

Book Miss Ruby s Cornucopia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ruth Adams Bronz
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780060162047
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Miss Ruby s Cornucopia written by Ruth Adams Bronz and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of recipes from foods grown in America.

Book The Cornucopia

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  • Author : W. W. Breese
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1078 pages

Download or read book The Cornucopia written by W. W. Breese and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World in a Skillet

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  • Author : Paul Knipple
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2012-03-01
  • ISBN : 0807869961
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The World in a Skillet written by Paul Knipple and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul and Angela Knipple's culinary tour of the contemporary American South celebrates the flourishing of global food traditions "down home." Drawing on the authors' firsthand interviews and reportage from Richmond to Mobile and enriched by a cornucopia of photographs and original recipes, the book presents engaging, poignant profiles of a host of first-generation immigrants from all over the world who are cooking their way through life as professional chefs, food entrepreneurs and restaurateurs, and home cooks. Beginning the tour with an appreciation of the South's foundational food traditions--including Native American, Creole, African American, and Cajun--the Knipples tell the fascinating stories of more than forty immigrants who now call the South home. Not only do their stories trace the continuing evolution of southern foodways, they also show how food is central to the immigrant experience. For these skillful, hardworking immigrants, food provides the means for both connecting with the American dream and maintaining cherished ethnic traditions. Try Father Vien's Vietnamese-style pickled mustard greens, Don Felix's pork ribs, Elizabeth Kizito's Ugandan-style plantains in peanut sauce, or Uli Bennevitz's creamy beer soup and taste the world without stepping north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Book American Cornucopia

Download or read book American Cornucopia written by Winterthur Library and published by Winterthur Museum. This book was released on 1990 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome volume presents highlights of the Winterthur Library collection in eighteen different areas related to the material culture of early America. Written by respected staff members in their areas of expertise, chapter essays cover topics such as architecture, ornament, interiors, furniture, ceramics and glass, metals, gardens, art and artists, cookbooks and manuals of domestic economy, the Shakers, advertising, childhood, courtesy and etiquette, pleasure and company, technology, textiles and needlework, and travel. With sixteen color plates and sixty-two black and white illustrations. Includes a list of holdings cited.

Book Flora of the Mediterranean

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  • Author : Christopher Gardner
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-03-06
  • ISBN : 1472982681
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Flora of the Mediterranean written by Christopher Gardner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mediterranean – a land of blues skies, warm sunshine, rugged mountains and azure seas. Yet this familiar image conceals another Mediterranean – a secret landscape populated by a dazzling variety of wild flowers and plants, from spectacular orchids and ancient olive trees to delicate snowdrops and hardy cacti. Following on from their widely acclaimed Flora of the Silk Road, Chris and Basak Gardner present a stunning selection of 600 of the finest wild flowers that grow in the Mediterranean regions of the world. Travelling across five continents – Europe, North America, Africa, South America and Australia – the authors reveal the rich botanical profusion that makes up the flora of the Mediterranean regions of the world. For each region, a succession of the most outstanding flowers is featured, from the spectacular and exotic to the beautiful yet familiar, with each plant presented in its natural habitat. Beginning with the countries of the Mediterranean Basin, the reader is taken along the rugged Atlas Mountains, through Andalucía and Italy, to arrive at the amazing botanical richness of Greece, southern Anatolia and Jordan. In California and Chile the journey is through flowering deserts, snow-capped peaks and towering forests of redwood and monkey puzzle trees, beside a coast lapped by the Pacific Ocean. The ancient landscapes of Southern Australia provide a truly remarkable assemblage of astonishing flora, whilst the Western Cape of South Africa is home to an unimaginable diversity of flora. The accompanying text provides descriptions of the species, plant families and their distribution, as well as offering guidance to those wishing to photograph plants in the wild. With 600 stunning colour photographs, and presenting a breadth of flora never before brought together in a single volume, the authors offer a unique window on the floral wonders of the Mediterranean world.

Book A Communications Cornucopia

Download or read book A Communications Cornucopia written by Lloyd Morrisett and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid progress in information technologies has produced an ever-broadening array of choices in information products. At the same time, it has caused historically segmented industries, such as television, telephones, computers, and print media, to converge and compete. The result is a cornucopia of products and potential in communications along with enormous strain on the governmental institutions that use and regulate information technology.The essays in this book provide a broad look at the many ways that information technology relates to issues of governance and public policy. Adjusting regulatory instititions to the new technical realities is a great challenge. Will monopoly power threaten the traditionally regulated areas of telephones and cable television or the software systems that integrate all information technologies into a single system with many competing players? Can traditional approaches to intellectual property rights and control of socially harmful content be applied to the converged information sector? This book sheds light on these issues, and in so doing demonstrates the usefulness of rigorous, multidisciplinary policy analysis in assessing the significance of changing technology.

Book Cornucopia II

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  • Author : Stephen Facciola
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 738 pages

Download or read book Cornucopia II written by Stephen Facciola and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia of some 3,000 species of edible plants, selecting those cultivars of them that are traditional and well-adapted favorites, family heirlooms, gourmet and specialty market items, and the most promising of the newest releases. The articles include common and scientific names and describe habitat and growing requirements, the part of the plant used, methods of preparation, where it is or has been used traditionally, and sources for obtaining it. The first edition sprouted in 1990. The publisher's address is 1870 Sunrise Dr. Vista, CA 92084. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book North American Species of Agrostis

Download or read book North American Species of Agrostis written by Albert Spear Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book the d  j   vu

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  • Author : Gabrielle Civil
  • Publisher : Coffee House Press
  • Release : 2022-02-22
  • ISBN : 1566896312
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book the d j vu written by Gabrielle Civil and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions. Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the déjà vu activates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement, speech, and lyric essay into performance memoir. As Civil considers Haitian tourist paintings, dance rituals, race at the movies, black feminist legacies, and more, she reflects on her personal losses and desires, speculates on black time, and dreams into expansive black life. With intimacy, humor, and verve, the déjà vu blurs boundaries between memory, grief, and love; then, now, and the future.

Book Bibliography of North American Geology  1929 1939

Download or read book Bibliography of North American Geology 1929 1939 written by Emma Mertins Thom and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book CORNUCOPIA

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  • Author : W. W. Breese
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2016-08-25
  • ISBN : 9781361501689
  • Pages : 1072 pages

Download or read book CORNUCOPIA written by W. W. Breese and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.