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Jane Grigson's Fruit Book / illustrated by Yvonne Skargon ; glossary to the American edition by Judith Hill.
LIBRA TX811 .G74 1982
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LIBRA - Blank Collection TX811 .G74 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grigson, Jane.
- Standardized Title:
- Fruit book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking (Fruit).
- Penn Provenance:
- Grad, Laurie Burrows (donor)
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- [14], xiii, 508, [4] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Other Title:
- Fruit Book
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atheneum, 1982.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Quantities
- Apple
- Apricot
- Arbutus
- Banana
- Bilberry, blaeberry and whortleberry
- Blackberry and dewberry
- Black, red and white currant
- Blueberry
- Carambola
- Cherimoya, custard apple and sour-sop
- Cherry
- Chinese gooseberry or kiwi
- Cornel or cornelian cherry
- Cranberry
- Date
- Feijoa or pineapple-guava
- Fig
- Gooseberry
- Grape
- Grapefruit, pomelo, ugli, citron etc
- Guava
- Lemon and lime
- Loquat or Japanese medlar
- Lychee, lichee or litchi, rambutan and mangosteen
- Mango
- Medlar
- Melon
- Mulberry
- Orange, tangerine, kumquat
- Papaya, papa, papaw or pawpaw
- Passion fruit or purple granadilla
- Peach and nectarine
- Pear
- Persimmon and Sharon persimmon
- Physalis or Cape gooseberry or golden berry
- Pineapple
- Plum, greengage and damson
- Pomegranate
- Prickly pear, Indian fig, Barbary fig or tuna
- Quince
- Raspberry and loganberry
- Rhubarb
- Sapodilla
- Sorb apple, wild service berry and rowan berry
- Strawberry
- Water-melon
- Appendix: The Best Fruit Shop?; Bunyard's Marriage of Fruit and Wine; Mixed Fruit Recipes; Fruit Preserves; Pastry; Biscuits, Bread etc.; Creams, Sugars etc.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Laurie Burrows Grad.
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Kislak copy has dust jacket with water stains along bottom edge retained.
- ISBN:
- 0689113056 :
- OCLC:
- 8473842
- Online:
- Laurie Burrows Grad Collection Home Page
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