By: Jack Staub
Genre: Non-Fiction Gardening
Gibbs Smith
March 1, 2005
On Sale: March 11, 2005
Featuring:
240 pages
ISBN: 1586852507
EAN: 9781586852504
Hardcover
Book Summary
"A Charming And Unique Primer Of The World’s Most Beautiful Vegetables"
This enchanting book showcases 75 of the world’s most beautiful vegetables and harkens back to the volumes of an earlier age when books such as these were as much prized for their illustrative and literary style as their content. Each brief, delightful chapter of Exciting Vegetables is dedicated to a single vegetable cultivar, enumerating it’s visual and edible charms, relating its fascinating history, advising the reader on it’s successful culture, and even including a savory recipe tip. Each chapter also contains an historic or informative call-out that’s sure to engage any gardening enthusiast, as well as a beautiful, full- color rendering of every featured vegetable by outstanding illustrator Ellen Buchert.