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Executive Chef Ray Duey gets into the intricate details of the ultimate creations: fun with carrots, rutabaga ginger flowers, Tuscan cantaloupe, cucumber lobster, turnip flowers, layered turnip, reversed watermelon, canary melon geometric patterns, watermelon outside in, papaya vase, watermelon wonder, and the Mozart grand finale. Also learn Chef Ray's cut & paste to create the ultimate centerpiece!
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Tasty, lethal, hallucinogenic, and medicinal--fruits have led nations into wars, fueled dictatorships, and even lured us into new worlds. Adam Leith Gollner weaves business, science, and travel into a narrative about one of earth's most desired foods. Readers will discover why, though countless exotic fruits exist in nature, only several dozen varieties are available in supermarkets. Gollner explores the political machinations of multinational fruit...
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"What is the powerful cultural significance of mangoes to contemporary Hispanic American writers? How does the strange sex life of figs relate to literature? Why are bananas the humorous fruit par excellence, and how are grapefruits anomalous among the citruses?"
"Literary episodes featuring fruit are pervasive across genre and cultural tradition, occurring in the Bible, modern and contemporary literature, and everywhere in between. Robert Palter...
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Growing Beautiful Food is a chronicle of growing food and living sustainably as a life-changing experience, with all the joy, folly, work, and wonder of transforming a small piece of earth into a thriving organic farm. Growing Beautiful Food is both inspiration and instruction, with detailed growing advice for 50 remarkable crops, a memorable narrative, and evocative imagery. It's a photographic journey through four seasons in the garden, fueling...
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In the arid valleys and coastal plains of California, fruit growers established a new agriculture during the first decades of this century. In The Fruits of Natural Advantage, Steven Stoll explains how a class of capitalist farmers made California the nation's leading producer of fruit and created the first industrial countryside in the United States.
14) The joy of keeping a root cellar: canning, freezing, drying, smoking, and preserving the harvest
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A comprehensive, full-color guide to root cellaring storing vegetables, meat, and more.
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In the early 1970s the authors spent their first seasons picking fruit and following migrant harvests around the country. Students in anthropology and communications, respectively, they were initially stirred by a sense of romantic adventure. Soon they were drawn in by the migrant way of life and the wonderful people they met among the "Okie" fruit pickers. Over time what began as a fascination grew into a commitment, and the authors became wedded...
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This wonderful book is both a practical and philosophical field guide to the natural gifts of the American countryside. The final harvest of our great nature writer's last years, Wild Fruits presents Thoreau's distinctly American gospel -- a sacramental vision of nature in which "the tension between Thoreau the naturalist and Thoreau the missionary for nature's wonders invigorates nearly every page" (Time). In transcribing the 150-year-old manuscript's...
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