Download or read book The New Oxford Book of Food Plants written by John Vaughan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Book of Food Plants is a beautifully illustrated compendium of facts about the plants we grow in our gardens and use in our cooking. Gorgeous botanical illustrations are accompanied by accessible yet authoritative descriptions of each plant, along with fascinating historical details and nutritive values. This is a new edition of a classic book — fully updated with the latest nutritional research, as well as beautiful new plates and descriptions of many exotic edible plants that have only recently found their way into our markets and onto our kitchen tables — it is a must-have for anyone who loves good food, cooking, and gardening.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Food Plants written by Sydney Gerald Harrison and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1969 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to describe the plants which serve the human race for food, by accurate and attractive illustrations of 420 different plant varieties, accompanied by text notes which provide particulars of their origin, geographical distribution, botany, and nutritional value. There is special emphasis of the pars of the plant which are used for food.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Food Plants written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Food Plants written by S. G. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Food Plants written by S.G. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford Book of Food Plants The written by S. and G. Masefield and M. Wallis Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Book of food plants written by Barbara E Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Food Plants written by S. G. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grains crops, Sugar crops, Oil crops, Nuts, Exotic water plants, Legumes, Fruits, Beverage crops, Fruit vegetables, Spices and flavourings, Herbs, Salad crops, Leaf vegetables, Stem, inflorescence and bulb vegetables, Root vegetables, Tropical root crops, Sago and sugar palms, Sea weeds, Mushrooms and tuffles, Wild british food plants, The domestication of food plants, The spread of food plants round the world, The uses and nutritional value of food plants.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Health Foods written by J. G. Vaughan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health foods and dietary supplements are widely used throughout the world - it is estimated that more than seventy million people in Europe regularly buy these products, and it is a billion dollar business in the USA. Health foods include vitamins, minerals, cereals, nuts, herbal medicines, functional foods, and many others. A large number of people use these foods in the belief that they contribute to their general health, while, in most countries, little or no information is given on products explaining their therapeutic values. The Oxford Book of Health Foods begins with an account of modern concepts of human nutrition, followed by a series of over one hundred accounts of individual health foods and dietary supplements. In all cases the importance of these products in human health is explained, and, for herbal medicines, the evidence for their claimed therapeutic value is given, and toxic effects are described. Full-colour illustrations accompany these accounts. The Oxford Book of Health Foods will be of interest not just to health professionals, but to all people with an interest in health foods and healthy eating. The text is supplemented throughout by beautifully drawn botanical illustrations.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Food Plants written by Sidney Gerald Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Food History written by Jeffrey M. Pilcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final chapter in this section explores the uses of food in the classroom.
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Download or read book The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia written by Valentina Peveri and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a beautiful garden to southern Ethiopian farmers? Anchored in the author’s perceptual approach to the people, plants, land, and food, The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia opens a window into the simple beauty and ecological vitality of an ensete garden. The ensete plant is only one among the many “unloved” crops that are marginalized and pushed close to disappearance by the advance of farming modernization and monocultural thinking. And yet its human companions, caught in a symbiotic and sensuous dialogue with the plant, still relate to each exemplar as having individual appearance, sensibility, charisma, and taste, as an epiphany of beauty and prosperity, and even believe that the plant can feel pain. Here a different story is recounted of these human-plant communities, one of reciprocal love at times practiced in an act of secrecy. The plot unfolds from the subversive and tasteful dimensions of gardening for subsistence and cooking in the garden of ensete through reflections on the cultural and edible dimensions of biodiversity to embrace hunger and beauty as absorbing aesthetic experiences in small-scale agriculture. Through this story, the reader will enter the material and spiritual world of ensete and contemplate it as a modest yet inspiring example of hope in rapidly deteriorating landscapes. Based on prolonged engagement with this “virtuous” plant of southwestern Ethiopia, this book provides a nuanced reading of the ensete ventricosum (avant-)garden and explores how the life in tiny, diverse, and womanly plots offers alternative visions of nature, food policy, and conservation efforts.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Wild Flowers written by S. Ary and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eating the Sun written by Oliver Morton and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wherever there is greenery, photosynthesis is working to make oxygen, release energy, and create living matter from the raw material of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Without photosynthesis, there would be an empty world, an empty sky, and a sun that does nothing more than warm the rocks and reflect off the sea. Eating the Sun is the story of a world in crisis; an appreciation of the importance of plants; a history of the earth and the feuds and fantasies of warring scientists; a celebration of how the smallest things, enzymes and pigments, influence the largest things, the oceans, the rainforests, and the fossil fuel economy. Oliver Morton offers a fascinating, lively, profound look at nature's greatest miracle and sounds a much-needed call to arms—illuminating a potential crisis of climatic chaos and explaining how we can change our situation, for better or for worse.
Download or read book Traveling Cultures and Plants written by Andrea Pieroni and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany?
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Flowerless Plants written by Frank Brightman and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
