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A CORNUCOPIA OF FRUIT & VEGETABLES

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BOTANICAL TREASURY

di BALL C.
Editore: BODLEIAN LIBRARY  (2021)

Descrizione

Close-up photos of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce ... these are familiar to us all through cookery books and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, is something very different - and more interesting. Thanks to intrepid explorers and plant-hunters, Britain and the rest of Europe have long enjoyed a wide and wonderful array of fruit and vegetables. Some wealthy households even created orangeries and glasshouses for tender exotics and special pits in which to raise pineapples, while tomatoes, sweetcorn and runner beans from the New World expanded the culinary repertoire.

Pagg. 152, rilegato.
Codice ISBN: 9781851245666

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