Melon : a global history / Sylvia Lovegren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lovegren, Sylvia, author.

Series:

Edible

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melons--History.

Melons.

Cooking (Melons).

History.

Physical Description:

152 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2016.

Summary:

Includes a selection of recipes, The oldest melon family remains, excavated in Thailand, have been dated to approximately 10,000 bc, In the Persian city of Merv special pigeonhouses were built so that their droppings could fertilize the melons for which the city was famous, In the thirteenth century the Islamic scholar and traveller Al-Qazvini wrote that the watermelons of Aswan in Egypt were so large that a strong camel could carry only two, Melons appeared on the shopping lists that Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) kept in his famous notebooks, Argentina holds a national watermelon festival every year Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Getting to Know Melons 15

2 Melons in Prehistory and the Ancient World 28

3 The Melon in the Classical Period 42

4 Melons in Late Antiquity and the Medieval Period 47

5 Melons on the Silk Road 58

6 The Melon in the Renaissance and into the Modern Era 76

7 Melons in the New World 84

8 The Deadly Melon 90

9 Folk Tales and Humorous Stories 97

10 Festivals, Contests and Folk Art 105

11 Modern and Future Melons 112.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-144) and index.

ISBN:

9781780235844

1780235844

OCLC:

920720323

Publisher Number:

99967177589