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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Shows how vegetables from the same family can be interchanged to complement other flavors and includes over three hundred recipes, including griddled asparagus with tarragon butter, potato cake with red chile molido, and chive and saffron crepes.
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Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. Niki Jabbour brings you 73 novel and inspiring food garden designs that include a cocktail garden featuring all the ingredients for your favorite drinks, a spicy retreat comprising 24 varieties of chile peppers, and a garden that's devoted to supplying year-round salad greens. Created by celebrated gardeners, each unique design is accompanied by both plant lists and charming anecdotes....
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Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Growing your own food means you know there are no chemical or genetic secrets, that it is pure and good. But you have questions about what and how much to plant, how to store, how to preserve. Pleasant provides a guidebook for people who want to control their food, from garden to pantry to table.
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Community gardening enhances the fabric of towns and cities through social interactions and accessibility to fresh food, creating an enormously positive effect in the lives of everyone it touches. LaManda Joy, the founder of Chicago's Peterson Garden Project and a board member of the American Community Gardening Association, has worked in the community gardening trenches for years and brings her knowledge to the wider world in Start a Community Food...
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Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply.
Food is one of the greatest pleasures of human life. Our response to sweet, salty, bitter, or sour is deeply personal, combining our individual biological characteristics,...
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"A useful and a wonderful resource whether you grow on a balcony, rooftop or in the ground." -Yolanda Burrell, owner of Pollinate Farm and Garden Supply
Once a fringe topic, permaculture is moving to the mainstream as organic gardeners discover the wisdom of a simple system that emphasizes the simple idea that by taking care of the earth, the earth takes care of you. The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture is for home gardeners of every...
11) Harvest time
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Simple nonfiction text and full-color photographs present crops and vegetables that are harvested in fall"--
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English
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In Food Heroes, Georgia Pellegrini introduces readers to the lively stories of artisanal food devotees such as New York mushroom forager Marion Burroughs, French fig collector Francis Honore, fish missionary Jon Rowley in Washington State, and Ugo Buzzio in New York City, one of the last makers of traditional dry-cured sausages in the United States. Filled with colorful anecdotes, photographs, and recipes, this book offers an accessible introduction...
14) Farm plants
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"In Farm Plants, beginning readers will learn what about the major crops that grow on a farm, as well as the many vegetables and herbs that grow in farm gardens. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn what major crops are called and what their fields look like. Photos and further detailed descriptions of major crops help introduce the content, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary....
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English
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Forget farm to table - go from garden to glass! There's no feeling quite like cooking with home-grown carrots or grabbing a fresh handful of cilantro from your own yard. Well, unless you're growing fruits, vegetables, or grains for brewing that is. Gardening for the Homebrewer is an introduction to the wide variety of plants that you can use for fermentations or infusions. Learn how to tell if your yard is a perfect site for barley or whether it's...
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands more--to the American plate.
"In the nineteenth century American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment. Agriculture yielded stable, basic crops like soybeans, corn, and barley, and few growers considered variety or flavor. But as a new century approached, appetites...
19) Cocoa beans
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English
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This book introduces readers to how cocoa beans are grown, harvested, and prepared.
20) Cinnamon
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English
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This book introduces readers to how cinnamon is grown, harvested, and prepared.