Overview

In this continuing series, the topic of vegetables embraces a wide range of pieces from English, American and overseas scholars. Their treatments encompass both a broader consideration of the vegetable diet and the history of the cultivation and consumption of specific varieties. Cookery and consumption are not highlighted at the expense of cultivation, so there are some interesting essays on allotments, market gardening in the Paris region, early-modern vegetable gardening in England and the development of markets in India. The theme has been treated with admirable latitude in contributions on vegetables and diplomacy, vegetable carving, and vegetables in Renaissance art. The book follows the standard form of academic proceedings and the readership is therefore specialised. This is the twenty-sixth volume in the series.

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Author:   Susan Friedland
Publisher:   Prospect Books
Imprint:   Prospect Books
Volume:   No. 26
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781903018668

ISBN 10:   1903018668
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 September 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Julia Abramson - (Don't) Eat Your Veggies: A Historical Semiotics of Carving Legumes. Lesley Acton - The War of Vegetables: The Rise & Fall of the English Allotment Movement. Ken Albala - The First Scientific Defense of a Vegetarian Diet. Elizabeth Andoh - Mukimono & Modoki: Japan's Culinary Trompe l'A il. Joan P. Alcock - The Roman Vegetable Garden. Anthony Buccini - The Bitter - and Flatulent - Aphrodisiac: Synchrony and Diachrony of the Culinary Use of Muscari Comosum in Greece and Italy. Jeremy Cherfas - Eat Your Greens: Traditional Leafy Vegetables for Better Nutrition. Andrew Dalby - 'We Talked About the Aubergines:' Some Minor Pleasures of European Diplomacy. Joel Denker - The Carrot Purple. Len Fisher - Listening to Vegetables. Anna Marie Fisker - Vegetables as Symbol in Design and Art. Anissa Helou - Akkoub (Gundelia Tournefortii - Tournefort's gundelia): An Edible Wild Thistle from the Lebanese Mountains. Phillip Iddison - Allotment Diaries. Cathy Kaufman - Is There Salvation in Sweetness? Sugar Beets in America. Jane Levi - Up on the Farm: The Role of Vegetables in Conquering Space. Mairtin Mac Con Iomaire & Padraic A g Gallagher - The Potato in Irish Cuisine and Culture. Ray McVinnie - Sweet As! Notes on the Kumara or New Zealand Sweet Potato as a Taonga, or Treasure. Mark McWilliams - The American Pumpkin. Michael & Joy Michaud - Wild Thing: The Naga Morich Story. Salvatore Musumeci - 'Per rape et porri et per spinachi': Re-examining the Realities of Vegetable Consumption at the Monastery of Santa Trinita in Post-Plague Florence. Lizbeth Nicol - Les Maraichers - Market Gardeners of the A le de France. Krina Patel - Keeping the Home Fires Burning: Culinary Exchanges, Sustainability and Traditional Vegetable Markets in India. Charles Perry - The Los Angeles Vegetable Cult. Gillian Riley - From the Plate to the Palate: Visual Delights from the Vegetable Kingdoms of Italy. William Rubel - But Did the English Eat Their Vegetables? A Look at English Kitchen Gardens and the Vegetable Cookery They Imply, 1650-1800. June di Schino - Renaissance Italy and the Fabulous, Flamboyant 'Inslata.' Aylin A-ney Tan - Bone-Dry Freshness: Dried Vegetables. Michelle Toratani - Daikon: The Root of Japan. Karin Vaneker - Pomtajer. Susan Weingarten - A Vegetable Zodiac from Late Antique Alexandria.

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