Asian Vegetables: A Guide to Growing Fruit, Vegetables and Spices from the Indian Subcontinent - Softcover

Cunningham, Sally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1899233164 ISBN 13: 9781899233168

Publisher: Eco-Logic Books, 2009

Synopsis

Asian Vegetables brings together a wealth of information on over 40 varieties of fruit, vegetables and spices that are grown on the Indian subcontinent and form a distinctive part of the unique cuisine in that part of the world.

Each plant comes together with details of what to look for when buying, the different varieties available, their nutritional value, comprehensive cultivation instructions, useful colour photographs and much more. Most can be grown almost anywhere, though some will grow best and thrive in the warmer, wetter parts of this country. The author Sally Cunningham has personally researched, grown, cooked and eaten every plant mentioned in this book.

With this unique guide both the experienced gardener and those new to growing will bring variety and a fresh, new dimension to the food on their plates and the plants in their garden.

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Review

"A superb and useful book."--Home Farmer

About the Author

Sally Cunningham, has been a professional organic gardener for nearly 30 years. She has been Deputy Head Gardener at the prestigious Ryton Organic Gardens and worked on a variety of projects from setting up Community Allotments to gardener at Belgrave Hall, a garden founded in 1500. Her work with the Plantcultures project (run jointly by Kew Botanical Gardens and Leicester Museums) gave her an opportunity to fulfil a lifelong ambition. Since moving to Leicester in the early 80s she has been intrigued by the exciting mixture of food cultures of that city. What started out as fascination with the huge variety of fresh produce on sale in the Asian shops and market stalls, has turned into her life's work, researching, writing about, cooking and growing these delicious vegetables, fruits and spices.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eco-Logic Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899233164
• ISBN 13: 9781899233168
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130