The carrot purple and other curious stories of the food we eat /

"How many otherwise well-educated readers know that the familiar orange carrot was once a novelty? It is a little more than 400 years old. Domesticated in Afghanistan in 900 AD, the purple carrot, in fact, was the dominant variety until Dutch gardeners bred the young upstart in the seventeenth...

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Main Author: Denker, Joel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, 2015
Series:Studies in food and gastronomy.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central