Each fruit is given a two-page spread with specially-commissioned botanical paintings and masses of information, including: - English names and scientific names - Country of origin and worldwide distribution - Varieties - Dimensions - Seasonality and propagation - Culinary and other uses - A descriptive entry detailing its known history, origins, discovery, and much more...- Selected entries also include recipes
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Thanks both to America's growing multiculturalism and to ever more efficient transportation, the market for tropical fruits has become nationwide. More and more unusual fruits appear in the nation's supermarkets, leaving the uninitiated increasingly bewildered. Top-quality, full-color drawings and informative text make Desmond Tate's Tropical Fruit helpful both for identification of these items and for encouraging their consumption by the uninitiated. Some fruits, such as the bilimbi and snakefruit, may be novel to most readers, but bananas, avocados, and mangoes have already a long history in North America. Yet seeing both the common and the rare together establishes some standards of comparison. Each listing has a recipe to encourage using the fruit and to persuade the uninitiated to try these exotic products. Mark Knoblauch
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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"Lavishly illustrated... Explains the origins of 40 kinds of tropical fruit, including the commonplace and the weird but inviting." -- The New York Times
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Some fruit, but not enough.,
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This book is beautifully arranged and the quality of the paper is wonderful.The only thing is that it leaves you wanting more!I find it hard to believe that only forty or so tropical fruits were mentioned when there are so many more exotic and delicious fruits that deserve to written about and shared with those people who lack the knowledge about them.
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