Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and
you'll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and
clementines to grapefruit and key limes--and sometimes even more
exotic fare like the Japanese yuzu or the baboon lemon. Nearly 100
million tons of citrus are produced globally every year, but where
did these fruits first come from? How did they find their way into
the Western world? And how did they become both a culinary and
cultural phenomenon?
Pierre Laszlo here traces the spectacular rise and spread of
citrus across the globe: from Southeast Asia in 4000 BC through
North Africa and the Roman Empire to early modern Spain and
Portugal, whose explorers introduced the fruits to the Americas
during the 1500s. Blending scientific rigor with personal
curiosity, "Citrus" ransacks over two millennia of world history,
exploring the numerous roles that citrus has played in agriculture,
horticulture, cooking, nutrition, religion, and art--from the
Jewish feast of the Tabernacles through the gardens and courts of
Versailles to the canvasses of Vincent van Gogh to the orange
groves of southern California and the juicing industry of
today.
"Laszlo . . . has approached the lore of citrus fruit with the elan
of a master chef (the man is French, after all), mixing history,
economics, biology and chemistry to produce a book that will bring
a smile to readers of every taste."--"Natural History"
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"Altogether charming, eccentric, erudite, and definitely worth the
price."--"Times Higher Education Supplement"
"Stimulating. . . . Laszlo shows that the citrus fruit 'is a
treasure trove of chemicals that are highly useful to
humankind'--which also happens to taste wonderful."--"Sunday Times
"(UK) "A short but brilliant account of 6,000 years of citrus
fruits that should be devoured with fervor."--"Financial Times "
"Did you know there are a billion citrus trees under cultivation,
or that grapefruit juice may potentiate the effects of Viagra?
"Citrus" mines over two millennia of history to explore the spread
of these fruits out of Asia, their commercialization in the United
States, and enduring symbolism the world over."--"New Scientist"
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