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Sex on the kitchen table : the romance of plants and your food / Norman C. Ellstrand ; illustrated by Sylvia M. Heredia.
LIBRA QK825 .E55 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellstrand, Norman Carl, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plants--Reproduction.
- Plants.
- Vegetable gardening.
- Cooking, American.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- The garden
- Recipe: garden soup-aka gazpacho
- Tomato: the plant sex manual
- Recipe: sweet and savory valentine pudding
- Banana: a life without sex
- Recipe: yes, we do have bananas! puffed pancake
- Avocado: timing is everything
- Recipe: avocado toast
- it's not just for breakfast anymore
- Beet: philander (female) and philanderer (male)
- Recipe: a celebration of beet evolution
- Squash and more: sex without reproduction
- Recipe: transgenic-or not-tacos
- Epilogue: return to the garden.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226574752
- 022657475X
- 9780226574899
- 022657489X
- OCLC:
- 1026189037
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