The carrot purple : and other curious stories of the food we eat / Joel S. Denker.
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 centur...
| Uniform Title: | Studies in food and gastronomy.
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2015]
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| Series: | Studies in food and gastronomy.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |