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best gardening book I have found
I live in Oh and bought the book in OH.I have not figured out how to tell which state the book is for.I can tell you that everything matches with what I know.It is excellent! It includes lots of good practical information.I grow Blueberry, Red and Black Raspberries plus the garden vegtable and fruit plants. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Fruit    2. Fruit-culture    3. Gardening    4. Gardening / Horticulture    5. Gardening/Plants    6. Herb gardening    7. Middle West    8. Regional - Midwest (Ia, Il, In, KS, Mi, MN, Mo , ND, Ne, Oh,    9. Vegetable gardening    10. Vegetables    11. Wisconsin    12. Gardening / Regional / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)   

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Helpful tips for difficult crops. Focus: China and Japan
The author focusses on China and Japan, paying far less attention to Korea, Southeast Asia and the South Asian region. This probably accounts for the omission of galangal (as noted by one reviewer above) and for the omission of important herbs such as rau ram (Polygonum odoratum), alluded to only vaguely by a Polygonum entry which says (roughly) "there are many oriental polygonums; you can find them sold in stores".
Great Source of Ingelligence on Growing and Using Veggies
`Oriental Vegetables' by English gardening writer Joy Larkcom is the real deal. For foodies like myself, the most important thing to know about the book is exactly what deal it is real. I bought it with a bunch of other books on Asian ingredients without paying attention to much about the book except for the title, being lead to it by Amazon's cleverly surfacing books related to the books you have already chose to buy. Especially do not be deceived by the very nice blurb on the cover from Alice Waters and play extra attention to the subtitle, `The Complete Guide for the Gardening Cook'.
first rate guide to growing Chinese vegetables
Joy Larkcom's excellent introduction to growing Asian vegetables is informative, well-designed, and ably illustrated by Elizabeth Douglass. The section on vegetable cultivation and technique in China is particularly interesting. The recipes are helpful to Western gardeners exploring the savoury variety of Chinese greens, peas, and beans for the first time. Read more

Subjects:  1. Cookery (Vegetables)    2. Cooking    3. Fruit    4. Gardening / Horticulture    5. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    6. Vegetable gardening    7. Vegetables    8. Vegetables, Chinese    9. Vegetables, Japanese    10. Fruit & vegetables   

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Filled with basic growing information and delicious recipes
Now in an expanded and updated second edition, Exotic Foods: A Kitchen And Garden Guide by gardening and culinary expert Marian Van Atta is a straightforward, "reader friendly" introduction to introducing tasty, enjoyable, and interesting new foods into one's culinary palate. Filled with basic growing information and delicious recipes for kumquats, macadamia nuts, mango, okra, and much more, Exotic Foods: A Kitchen And Garden Guide is a sure-fire way to enrich one's gardening, culinary adventures, and mealtime satisfaction! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cookery (Tropical fruit)    2. Cooking    3. Cooking / Wine    4. Courses & Dishes - General    5. Fruit    6. Specific Ingredients - Fruit    7. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    8. Tropical crops    9. Tropical fruit   

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Unbelievably fabulous
I just saw this book on my sister's kitchen counter. We both have lots ofapples from our apple trees and are always looking for interesting anddelicious ways to use them.Read more

Subjects:  1. Apples    2. Cookery (Apples)    3. Cooking    4. Cooking / Wine    5. Fruit    6. Specific Ingredients - Fruit    7. Alcoholic beverages    8. COOKBOOKS - WINES/SPIRITS    9. Cookery by ingredient    10. Fruit & vegetables    11. Garden design & planning   

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From heirlooms to salsa
"Terrific Tomatoes" is attractive and easy-to-follow. It begins with general growing advice and moves on to specifics such as container gardening - for color, with herbs, in hanging baskets.
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Subjects:  1. Cookery (Tomatoes)    2. Fruit    3. Gardening / Horticulture    4. Gardening/Plants    5. Tomatoes    6. Crop husbandry    7. Fruit & vegetables    8. Gardening / General    9. House plants   

Subjects:  1. Agriculture - Crop Science    2. Beans    3. Diseases and pests    4. Fruit    5. Gardening / Horticulture    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology   

Editorial Review

After rice, corn, and wheat--the three staples of, respectively, East Asia, the Americas, and Eurasia--the olive is the foodstuff most closely bound to history, shaping the course of nations and empires.Mort Rosenblum, the author of the lively Secret Life of the Seine and many other books, gives us a wide-angle, altogether engrossing account of the olive's life and natural history, studding his narrative with conversations with farmers all around the Mediterranean. Rosenblum predicts an upsurge in olive cultivation in the United States as more and more people become aware of the fruit's many healthful qualities. If you have the urge to take up farming, read this fine book--you may be moved to put in some olive trees and try your luck. ... Read more

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Delightful book on all things olive
_Olives_ by Mort Rosenblum is a well-written, witty, and engaging book on all things olive, thorough in its coverage. Rosenblum became an olive aficionado after acquiring five acres of land in the Provence region of France, site of an abandoned farmhouse and two hundred half-dead and heavily overgrown century-plus olive trees, long neglected. From that point on he became not only committed to bringing his trees back to life but on becoming an expert on olives in general, traveling throughout France, Israel, Palestine, Spain, Italy, Tunisia, Morocco, Greece, the former Yugoslavia, California, and Mexico to speak to olive growers, those who press olives for their oil, government regulators, those involved in marketing table olives and olive oil, chefs, and nutritional experts. Though not a cookbook, _Olives_ even includes cooking, buying, and storage tipsas well as recipes for such fare as eliopitta (a Cypriot olive bread) and imam bayaldi (the name meaning "the imam fainted," supposedly reference to a long-ago reaction to this eggplant and olive oil dish).
Passion on Paper
I'm gorging myself with olives: the fruit, the oil, this book. There are books you re-read years gone, but I found myself devouring clumps of this book just days after reading it in the conventional way. Mort Rosenblum could have given us an encyclopedic guide to the "noble fruit," but instead he follows his passions--and does first class journalistic digging--to press out the finest extra virgin essence of his subject. I also like the way Rosenblum writes, as much a friend as an authority. France, and its olive oils, comes first on the author's list, but he also does justice to subjects as disparate as the place of olives in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the promising growth of the high-end California olive oil industry, and even the seemingly bottomless corruption on the olive oil front in the European Community. Few effective journalists write with such literary flair, without seeming to try too hard. A winner. GREAT READ!
This is a great book! I bought a copy while visiting an olive orchard in Australia. Anyone interested in developing an olive orchard would find this book useful. Excellent travel writing to boot! I've even planted my own kalamata olive tree after reading the book . I'm so inspired I might even buy a home press. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cooking    2. Fruit    3. Fruits And Orchards    4. Gardening / Horticulture    5. History    6. Olive    7. Olive industry and trade    8. Specific Ingredients - Fruit    9. Trees    10. Cookery by ingredient    11. Technology / Agriculture & Animal Husbandry   

Subjects:  1. Cultural And Social Anthropology    2. Dried Flowers    3. Fruit    4. General    5. Nature    6. Sociology   

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Fruits and vegetables in art and history
The origins of food plants is a fascinating subject in its own right while the light it shines on human history is a splendid bonus.Knowing that barley and wheat came from the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia in the Middle East helps to explain why civilization first arose there and not somewhere else.Those foods helped to sustain a "surplus" population that could devote itself to the arts and invention, leading to the modern world.Indeed all wealth has as its base the growth and storage of food in excess of that which is needed for the sustenance of the food producers, resulting in non-food producing people who can devote themselves to competing schemes of how to steal the wealth and how to protect it (i.e., war).Looking at the history of art through still life and other works of art centering on fruits and vegetables is also fascinating.Essentially this is what Jonathan Roberts has done in this very attractive, richly illustrated book. Praise the Lord and pass the Sauce!
This book is an excellent overview of the natural history of fruit and vegetables-where they originated, how they have changed and developed over time, and how they have influenced history. The first part details various aspects of our most common fruits (as least 29 main types are discussed), the second part that of vegetables (at least 25). New York Times, January 30, 2002
Mr Roberts's talent in explaining foods' beginnings make this elegant 228-page volume a real page turner. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Fruit    2. Fruit Crops    3. Gardening    4. Gardening / Horticulture    5. Gardening/Plants    6. General    7. History    8. Origin    9. Vegetable Processing    10. Vegetables    11. Gardening / General    12. History / General   

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Love It
This is a lovely book about greens and growing them.If you're interested in learning about them this may be the book for you.Charming and informative.There are some good recipes included.However, if you're looking for more recipes... then there are other choices that will be better.

Picture Book
This book is a garden-picture book for salad lovers.It has 3 main parts: the art of salad gardening, which discusses different approaches to gardening with greens, an encyclopedia of salad greens, which includes information about growing individual greens, and favorite salad recipes.At the back of the book are appendices covering basics of planting and maintenance, pests and diseases, and resources.The book is filled with colorful photographs of greens in gardens and on the dining table.
Edible Salad Garden
I loved this book. It inspired me to make my ownpersonal garden a salad garden. I love the recipes and though I once found salads dull, I have changed my ways! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Courses & Dishes - Salads    2. Fruit    3. Gardening    4. Gardening / Horticulture    5. Gardening/Plants    6. Salad greens    7. Salad vegetables    8. Salads    9. Vegetable gardening    10. Vegetables   

Subjects:  1. Agriculture - General    2. Berries    3. Fruit    4. Fruit Crops    5. Fruit-culture    6. Gardening    7. Gardening/Plants    8. Grapes    9. Home Gardening    10. Technology & Industrial Arts   

Subjects:  1. Fruit    2. Gardening    3. Gardening / Horticulture    4. Gardening/Plants    5. Tomatoes    6. Vegetable Crops    7. Vegetables   

Subjects:  1. Fruit Crops    2. Fruit culture    3. Fruit-culture   

Subjects:  1. Cooking    2. Cooking / Wine    3. Fruit Processing    4. General    5. Specific Ingredients - Herbs, Spices, Condiments    6. Specific Ingredients - Vegetables    7. Fiction / Romance / General   

Subjects:  1. Fruit    2. Fruit-culture    3. Gardening    4. Gardening / Horticulture    5. Gardening/Plants    6. Herb gardening    7. Mississippi    8. Nuts    9. Regional - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA    10. Vegetable gardening    11. Vegetables    12. Gardening / Regional / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)   

Subjects:  1. Fruit    2. Fruit-culture    3. Gardening    4. Gardening / Horticulture    5. Gardening/Plants    6. Herb gardening    7. North Carolina    8. Nuts    9. Regional - General    10. Regional - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA    11. Vegetable gardening    12. Vegetables    13. Gardening / Regional / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)   

Subjects:  1. Agriculture & Animal Husbandry - General    2. Berries    3. Fruit    4. Fruit culture    5. Fruit-culture    6. Gardening / Horticulture    7. Nuts   

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Indespensible reference for midwestern growers
Home and commercial growers in the Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas) face major challenges in getting steady crops of quality fruit.Tree fruits, berries, and the like are better adapted to warmer areas.Most commercially available cultivars are not well adapted to the cold climate in and around Minnesota. awesome book
Don covers all the basics of all fruit varieties you can grow in the upper midwest. A book of reference fro anyone interested in growing an orchard in their yard ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Fruit    2. Fruits And Orchards    3. Gardening    4. Gardening/Plants    5. General    6. Regional - General    7. Science    8. Crop husbandry    9. Fruit & vegetables    10. Horticulture    11. USA   

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ONLY for those interested in history and growing
Not an easy read unless you are interested in horticulture.The book really has many parts to it; the most important for me was the history of Florida citrus (very interesting), discussion of different varieties and hybrid varieties and their origins, and precise tips on growing good citrus (given the right climate). all about florida'sfloridas citrus
All about Florida's citrus and all the history of Florida citru ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Agriculture - General    2. Citrus    3. Florida    4. Fruit    5. Fruit Crops    6. Gardening    7. Gardening / Horticulture    8. Regional - General    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Crop husbandry    11. Fruit & vegetables    12. Horticulture    13. USA   

Subjects:  1. Fruit    2. Gardening    3. Gardening / Horticulture    4. Herb Gardening    5. Herbs    6. Horticultural Crops    7. Spanish: Adult Nonfiction    8. Vegetables    9. Gardening / Reference