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Sex on the Kitchen Table - The Romance of Plants and Your Food (Paperback)
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Sex on the Kitchen Table - The Romance of Plants and Your Food (Paperback)
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At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of
botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately
intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident than
among the plants that sustain us. From lascivious legumes to horny
hot peppers, most of humanity’s calories and other nutrition come
from seeds and fruits—the products of sex—or from flowers, the
organs that make plant sex possible. Sex has also played an
arm’s-length role in delivering plant food to our stomachs, as
human handmade evolution (plant breeding, or artificial selection)
has turned wild species into domesticated staples. In Sex on the
Kitchen Table, Norman C. Ellstrand takes us on a vegetable-laced
tour of this entire sexual adventure. Starting with the love apple
(otherwise known as the tomato) as a platform for understanding the
kaleidoscopic ways that plants can engage in sex, successive
chapters explore the sex lives of a range of food crops, including
bananas, avocados, and beets, finally ending with genetically
engineered squash—a controversial, virus-resistant vegetable
created by a process that involves the most ancient form of sex.
Peppered throughout are original illustrations and delicious
recipes, from sweet and savory tomato pudding to banana puffed
pancakes, avocado toast (of course), and both transgenic and
non-GMO tacos. An eye-opening medley of serious science, culinary
delights, and humor, Sex on the Kitchen Table offers new insight
into fornicating flowers, salacious squash, and what we owe to
them. So as we sit down to dine and ready for that first bite, let
us say a special grace for our vegetal vittles: let’s thank sex
for getting them to our kitchen table.
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