Title: 100 vegetables and where they came from /
Authors: Weaver, William Woys, 1947-
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Vegetables; Groenten.; Oorsprong.; Vegetables; Gemüse.; Vegetables
Abstract: Explores the origins, history, and use of one hundred vegetables; arranged alphabetically by common name.
Contents: Aji dulce pepper -- Aji limon pepper -- All-red potato -- Alma pea -- Apricot tomato -- Arran victory potato -- Banana shallot or cuisse de poulet -- Beauty of hebron potato -- Biretta vermelha pepper -- Black pindar peanut -- Black taro -- Buena mulata pepper -- Cardon de tours cardoon -- Chengdu garlic -- Chieftain savoy cabbage -- Chiltoma peppers -- Chinese giant pepper -- Chinese violet cress -- Crimson flowering fava -- Cutchogue cheese pumkin -- Datil pepper -- Dinawa black-eyed cowpea -- Dwarf choy sum -- Early champagne rhubarb -- Egyptian flat black beet -- Ekaterinoslav bean -- Ethiopian yellow lentil -- Flageolet chevrier vert bean -- Foul misri fava -- Frijoles rojas de seda -- Fuseau Jerusalem artichoke -- Gbognome eggplant collards -- Giant zittau onion -- Golden corn salad -- Great red plantain -- Green grape tomato -- Griselle shallot -- Heritage d'ore bean -- Jackson wonder bush lima -- Jaune du poitou leek -- Katie's mustard lettuce