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A Fun-To-Read Look At The Nut's Journey From Tree To Mouth; In this look at the fabulous world of nuts and their development from bud to supermarket shelf, walnuts, cashews pecans, macadamia nuts, pistachios and almonds are all explored in colourful, scientific and easy-to-read detail. Spotlighted in Booklist as a ""fine series"", these lively books serve up a comucopia of information on variety of edible plants. Explore topics ranging from where the plants originated, how they were first cultivated, how they're currently grown, processed and sold, to how they're eaten around the world and what their scientific applications are. Each book includes cross-sectional diagrams of the focus plants, literary quotes, nutritional information, sidebars, recipes and activities.

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Meredith Sayles Hughes has been writing about food since the mid-1970s, when she and her husband founded the Potato Museum in Brussels, Belgium. She has worked on two major exhibitions about food, one for the Smithsonian and one for the National Museum of Science and Technology in Ontario. Author of several articles on food history, Meredith has collaborated with her husband on a range of programs, lectures, workshops, as well as on The Great Potato Book.

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