Author: Francis Peyre PorcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural
Author: Francis Peyre PorcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Ancient Agriculture
Author: Gabriel Alonso de HerreraPublisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781423601203
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Art of Agriculture is the first English edition of Obra de Agricultura by Gabriel Alonso de Herrera, an agriculture instruction manual originally written in Granada, Spain, in 1513 and published there in 1539. Herrera, widely considered the Father of Modern Spanish Agriculture, wrote this treatise nearly five centuries ago, thoughtfully recounting traditional farming techniques of the Moors before their expulsion from Spain, the Spanish colonizers in the early 1600s, and the rural Indo-Hispano bioregion spanning northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Today, farmers, gardeners, and ecological horticulturists are striving to work in harmony with nature, using traditional irrigation methods (involving acequias, sangras, and arroyos) to transform barren high-desert landscapes into fields supporting crop growth. This book speaks to today's farmers, no matter their size or output, in drought-ridden areas with land patterns characterized by natural ditches (acequias) and community water distribution systems (suertes). This type of agriculture exists not only in the American Southwest but from the Philippines to India to the Middle East. With global warming, water usage, and increased populations today, this book is more pertinent now than ever. Practical as well as philosophical, The Art of Agriculture will fascinate anyone interested in organic farming, sustainable agriculture, and permaculture worldwide.
People, Print & Paper
Author: Michael RichardsPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 0642104514
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The National Library's major public contribution to the Australian Bicentenary was the travelling exhibition, People, Print & Paper. Celebrating two hundred years of Australian books, this exhibition and the accompanying catalogue bring together a collection of books which gives a fascinating insight into an aspect of Australian life and character which is often overlooked.
The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
Author: Guide to Reprints, 2003
Author: K G Saur BooksPublisher: K. G. Saur
ISBN: 9783598238901
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Southern Provisions
Author: David S. ShieldsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022614111X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
From grits to deep-fried okra, from barbecue to corn bread, Southern food stirs greater loyalty and passion than any American cuisine. Yet as the crops that once defined it have disappeared, much of the flavor has leeched out of Southern cookery until today. Thanks to a community of devoted chefs and farmers, and one indefatigable historian, Southern heirloom greens and grains and with them America s greatest cuisine--are being revived. Searching the archives for evidence of how nineteenth-century farmers bred their enormous variety of vegetables and grains, and of their contemporaries tastes and cooking practices, David S. Shields has become a key figure in the effort to reboot Southern cuisine. "Southern Provisions" draws on ten years of research and activism to tell the story of a quintessentially American cuisine that was all but forgotten, and the lessons that its restoration holds for the revival of regional cuisines across the country. Shields vividly evokes the connections between plants, plantations, growers, seed brokers, markets, vendors, cooks, and consumers. He shows how the distinctiveness of local ingredients arose from historical circumstances and a confluence of English, French Huguenot, West African, and Native American foodways. Shields emphasizes the Southern Lowcountry, from the peanut patches of Wilmington, North Carolina; to the Truck Farms of the Charleston Neck, South Carolina; to the sugar cane fields of the Georgia Sea Islands; to the citrus groves of Amelia Island, Florida. But the book also takes up the cuisine of New Orleans and other areas of the South and the nation, and even the West Indies. Offering a fascinating panorama of America s culinary past, "Southern Provisions" also shows how the renovation of traditional southern ingredients will enable cooks to take regional cuisine into the future."
Books in Print Supplement
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2576
Book Description
The United States Catalog; Books in Print January 1, 1912
Author: Marion E. PotterPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
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