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The Apple - A Delicious History (Hardcover)
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The Apple - A Delicious History (Hardcover)
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List price R661
Loot Price R539
Discovery Miles 5 390
You Save R122 (18%)
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Sin, cider and apple crumble. the 10,000-year story of the world's most
tempting fruit.
The Apple: A Delicious History takes the reader on an extraordinary
journey, from the apple's prehistoric beginnings in the Tian Shan
mountains of Kazakhstan to the explosion of commercial apple-growing in
twenty-first-century China. Zigzagging across the centuries and
straddling the globe, Sally Coulthard explores how the apple travelled
along the Silk Road from Central Asia to Europe, appearing as an
erotically charged symbol in Greek myth and poetry and even featuring
in the shopping list of a senior Roman officer stationed on Hadrian's
Wall. She samples the cider that flowed from the emperor. Charlemagne's
orchards in the early Middle Ages, and relishes the crispness of the
yellow sweeting, the first new apple variety to be cultivated in
seventeenth-century America. And she discovers why, despite the
existence of more than 7500 varieties of apple - from the ubiquitous
Granny Smith to the purple-skinned Black Diamond of Tibet - only a
handful of cultivars are available in modern supermarkets.
Amplified by mouth-wateringly appley recipes and the stories behind
them, The Apple: A Delicious History embraces not only culinary,
horticultural, social and commercial history but also age-old
traditions in mythology, folklore and religion. It is the perfect gift
book for gardeners and nature lovers - and for anyone who enjoys a drop
of cider or a slice of apple pie.
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