The Edible Heirloom Garden
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- Synopsis
- Rosalind Creasy invites gardeners into the colorful and diverse world of heirloom vegetables. Plant, grow, and harvest the vegetables of a century ago, and serve them up using some of the delightful traditional recipes (with modern twists) in this sumptuous book.Replete with photographs of tomatoes, squash, carrots, beans, cabbages and many more, reminiscent of an old-time county fair, Creasy takes you on a tour of heirloom gardens from New England to Idaho and back to the Iowa heartland, where, Kent Whealy points out, many heirloom vegetables are native. In "How To Grow an Heirloom Garden," Creasy gives extensive instructions on saving and storing seeds from year to year. The "Resources" section of the book lists numerous sources for heirloom seeds.The "Encyclopedia of Heirloom Vegetables" section offers beets in white, deep red, and purple, as well as potatoes and tomatoes of every hue and shape. No list of heirloom vegetables would be complete without a section on parsnips, rutabaga, and turnips-the root vegetables that got our forebears through many a long winter.Creasy provides recipes for every season, including "Roasted Parsnips," which can be made fresh from the garden even in winter. Begin a meal with hearty "Beerocks" and end with mouth-watering "Carrot Pie," which, as Creasy points out, wouldn't have been considered dessert at all in Colonial days.
- Copyright:
- 1999
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781462917648
- Related ISBNs:
- 9789625932941
- Publisher:
- Tuttle Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 11/13/15
- Copyrighted By:
- Rosalind Creasy
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Home and Garden
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.