“Clad in high heels and a pencil skirt, Frieda Caplan was already an anomaly in the male-dominated produce wholesale markets of the 1950s, a job that came about simply because […]
Tag: vegetables
Sealing fruit with coatings like wax goes back more than 900 years
For more than 900 years, people have been coating their fruits and vegetables to preserve them and make them more attractive. “In 16th-century England, people used a method called larding: […]
Tomato: A Global History
by Clarissa Hyman From the publisher: In the history of food, the tomato is a relative newcomer outside its ancestral home in Mesoamerica. And yet, as we devour pizza by […]
Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent
by John Reader From the publisher: The potato—humble, lumpy, bland, familiar—is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it? John Reader’s narrative on the role of the potato […]
Curious History of Vegetables: Aphrodisiacal and Healing Properties, Folk Tales, Garden Tips, and Recipes
by Wolf D. Storl From the publisher: Featuring gardening tips, recipes, and beautiful full-color pencil drawings of each vegetable, this book for farm-to-fork aficionados and gardeners with an esoteric bent […]