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The Seed Detective - Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables (Hardcover)
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The Seed Detective - Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 990
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Meet the Indiana Jones of vegetables on his quest to save our heritage
produce.
Have you ever wondered how everyday staples such as peas, kale,
asparagus, beans, squash and sweetcorn ended up on our plates? Well, so
did Adam Alexander. Adam’s passion for heritage vegetables was ignited
when he tasted an unusual, sweet and fiery pepper while on a filmmaking
project in Ukraine. Smitten by its flavour, he began to seek out local
growers of old and near-forgotten varieties in a mission to bring home
seeds to grow and share – saving them from being lost forever.
In The Seed Detective, Adam tells of his far flung (and closer to home)
seed-hunting adventures and reveals the stories behind many of our
everyday vegetable heroes. How the common garden pea was domesticated
from three wild species over 8,500 years ago, that the first carrots
originated in Afghanistan (and were actually purple or red in colour),
how Egyptian priests considered it a crime to look at a fava bean and
that the Romans were fanatical about asparagus.
Join The Seed Detective as he takes us on a journey that began when we
left the life of hunter-gatherers to become farmers. Sharing storiesof
globalisation, political intrigue, colonisation and serendipity, Adam
shows us the vital part vegetables have played in our food story – and
how they are the key to our future.
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