The Potato Garden : a grower's guide / Maggie Oster ; foreword by Jim Wilson ; illustrations by Lesley Ehlers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oster, Maggie.

Contributor:

Wilson, Jim, 1925-2010, writer of foreword.

Ehlers, Lesley, illustrator.

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Potatoes.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Edition

Place of Publication:

New York : Harmony Books, 1993.

Contents:

1. Reigning Potatoes. History of the Potato

2. Tuber of Not Tuber. How Potatoes Grow

3. The Great Potato Plot. Selecting and Preparing a Site

4. The Eyes Have It. Preparing "Seed" Potatoes and Slips

5. Plant One on Me, Baby. Conventional and Unusual Ways of Planting Potatoes

6. Tuber Loving Care. Pampering Your Potatoes

7. One Potato Two Potato. Harvesting and Storing Potatoes

8. This Spud's for You. Potato Portfolio

9. Do the Mashed Potato. Eating Potatoes

Recipes.

Notes:

"A Running Heads Book. Quarto Inc., London."

Printed on brown paper.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-125) and index.

Local Notes:

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 retained.

ISBN:

0517591170 :

9780517591178

OCLC:

26504133