Publisher Comments

With artfully illustrated features on 20 major vegetables, this sumptuous book contains 125 color photos and information on different varieties of each vegetable, buying for quality and freshness, storage, preparation, and basic cooking techniques. Over 150 recipes in this beautifully designed book provide spirited and delicious treatments of familiar vegetables, with advice on exploring less common ones. Step-by-step photographs help even inexperienced cooks tac... read more>>>

Publisher Comments

Twenty years in the making, the first edition of Alan Davidson's magnum opus appeared in 1999 to worldwide acclaim. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity was recognized as utterly unique. Including both an exhaustive catalogue of the foods that nourish humankind-fruit from tropical forests, mosses scraped from adamantine granite in Siberian wastes, or ears, eyeballs and testicles from a menagerie of... read more>>>