From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmera??s markets,A today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchensa??and especially to vegetables. Whether ita??s an heirloom tomato, curled cabbage, or succulent squash, from a farmera??s market or a backyard plot, the humble vegetable offers more than just nutritiona??it also represents a link with long tradition of farming and gardening, nurturing and breeding. .In this charming new book, those veggies finally get their due. In capsule biographies of eleven different vegetablesa??artichokes, beans, chard, cabbage, cardoons, carrots, chili peppers, Jerusalem artichokes, peas, pumpkins, and tomatoesa??Evelyne Bloch-Dano explores the world of vegetables in all its facets, from science and agriculture to history, culture, and, of course, cooking. From the importance of peppers in early international trade to the most recent findings in genetics, from...

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