by Evelyne Bloch-Dano From the publisher: From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmers’ markets, today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the […]
Tag: plants
Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind
by Henry Hobhouse From the publisher: A personal and highly original take on the history of six commercial plants, Seeds of Change illuminates how sugar, tea, cotton, the potato, quinine, […]
Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
by Richard Mabey From the publisher: The Cabaret of Plants is a masterful, globe-trotting exploration of the relationship between humans and the kingdom of plants by the renowned naturalist Richard […]
Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World’s Great Drinks
by Amy Stewart From the publisher: Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet? In The Drunken […]
Herbs: A Global History
by Gary Allen From the publisher: You can’t make pesto alla Genovese without basil or a Mojito without mint. You can use peppermint to settle an upset stomach, ease arthritis […]
Chestnut trees victim of ecological disaster in 1904
The American chestnut, Castanea dentata, was an incredibly important species, for humans and our eastern deciduous forests. It quickly grew tall and wide, producing large quantities of straight, rot-resistant wood […]
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
by Bill Laws From the publisher: Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History is a beautifully presented guide to the plants that have had the greatest impact on human civilization. Entries […]
Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
by Thor Hanson From the publisher: We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and […]