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Books : Forgotten Fruits: A Guide to Britain's Traditional Fruit and Vegetables, from Orange Jelly Turnips to Dan's Mistake Gooseberries
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Forgotten Fruits: A Guide to Britain's Traditional Fruit and Vegetables, from Orange Jelly Turnips to Dan's Mistake Gooseberries by: Christopher Stocks List Price: £16.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £11.89 You Save: £5.10 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9781905211807 ISBN: 1905211805 Label: Random House Books Manufacturer: Random House Books Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: May 01, 2008 Publisher: Random House Books Studio: Random House Books Sales Rank: 1199 Related Items:
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 Rating: - If they're forgotten, this is a great reminderChristopher Stock's book is such a nice, anti-market forces type of book. Stocks has gone all over Britain to research the stories of heritage fruit and veg varieties - the kind that taste really good but maybe don't look quite as uniform, neat and tidy. There's the right amount of history - from the French spy Frézier to Charlotte Knight, cherry breeder - and he's not pretending to have solved every puzzle - the Bascombe Mystery remains just that. Each variety is treated in a section that's just the right length - about a page or so. The first section alone, Apples, made me want to go to an Apple day and actually try some of the fragrant fruit he enthuses about - the Cornish Gilliflower, the Crawley Beauty. There's lots of practical ... Read More: Rating: - Delectable!A charming glimpse into the highways and byways of England's horticultural (and culinary) history, illuminated by fascinating anecdotes. Perfect for dipping into and strongly recommended for gardeners and cooks alike. Rating: - Good enough to eatLike the best fruit and veg, this delicious book appeals to all the senses at once. Meticulously researched, it dispels a few allotment myths, fixes facts and sets the record straight in a number of instances. It will be devoured greedily by hard-headed horticulturists and dewy-eyed nostalgics alike; for the historian it supplies a ticklish, oblique insight into Britain's social history. This is a serious and definitive work of fact liltingly well written, bathed in warm, light humour. It is both a work of delight and a work of reference. For lovers of language there is a euphony in plant names which places them right up there with Dorset place names. They taste as well in the mouth as their subjects. Savour them: Cranston's Excelsior, Vaux's Self-Folding, ... Read More: |
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