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Fruits of Eden - David Fairchild and America's Plant Hunters (Hardcover)
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Fruits of Eden - David Fairchild and America's Plant Hunters (Hardcover)
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At the turn of the noneteenth century - when mmost food in America
was blan and brown and few people appreciated the economic
potential of then-exotic foods - David Fairchild convinced the U.S.
Department of Agriculture to finance overseas explorations to find
and bring back foreign cultivars. Fairchild traveled to remote
corners of the globe, searching for fruits, vegetables, and grains
that could find a new home in American fields and in the American
diet. In Fruits of Eden, Amanda Harris vividly recounts the
exploits of Fairchild and his small band of adventurers and
botanists as they traversed distant lands - Algeria, Baghdad, Cape
Town, Hong Kong, Java, and Zanzibar - to return with new and
exciting flavors. Their expeditions led to a renaissance not only
at the dinner table but also in horticulture, providing diversity
of crops for farmers across the country. A fascinating account of
our greatest agricultural explorer, who battled almost every
imaginable peril so that American farmers could grow foods like
mangoes, avocados, figs, and dates.
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