Author: Publisher: Williamsburg, Va : Moebs Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
U.S. Reference-iana, 1481-1899
Author: Publisher: Williamsburg, Va : Moebs Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
The Tomato in America
Author: Andrew F. SmithPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070099
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
From the Americas to Australasia, from northern Europe to southern Africa, the tomato tickles the world's taste buds. Americans along devour more than twelve million tons annually of this peculiar fruit, variously considered poisonous, curative, and aphrodisiacal. In this first concerted study of the tomato in America, Andrew F. Smith separates myth from historical fact, beginning with the Salem, New Jersey, man who, in 1820, allegedly attracted spectators from hundreds of miles to watch him eat a tomato on the courthouse steps (the legend says they expected to see him die a painful death). Later, hucksters such as Dr. John Cook Bennett and the Amazing Archibald Miles peddled the tomato's purported medicinal benefits. The competition was so fierce that the Tomato Pill War broke out in 1838. The Tomato in America traces the early cultivation of the tomato, its infiltration of American cooking practices, the early manufacture of preserved tomatoes and ketchup (soon hailed as "the national condiment of the United States"), and the "great tomato mania" of the 1820s and 1830s. The book also includes tomato recipes from the pre-Civil War period, covering everything from sauces, soups, and main dishes to desserts and sweets. Now available for the first time in paperback, The Tomato in America provides a piquant and entertaining look at a versatile and storied figure in culinary history.
Haydn's Dictionary of Dates
Author: Benjamin VincentPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385227577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Handbook on Origins of American Horticulture
Author: Dorothy S. ManksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Plants & Gardens
Author: The Florists' Exchange
Author: J. Horace McFarland
Author: Ernest MorrisonPublisher: Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Ernest Morrison compellingly tells the story of J. Horace McFarland's defense of Niagara Falls from power company interests, collaboration with John Muir and others to preserve the Hetch Hetchy Valley at Yosemite, and becoming known as the father of the National Park Service. This book is a vivid account of his crucial role in early conservation.
Dictionary Catalog of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
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