| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780865475793 | | Publisher: North Point Press | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30495472 | | Item#: R97MDS | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 5.5L x 0.75T | | Pages: 256 |
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| | | Frank Browning leads us on a beguiling journey through the primal myths of the world's most popular fruit and then explains that the first apples really appeared in Kazakhstan on the slopes of the Heavenly Mountains. He visits the apple germplasm repository in Geneva, New York, and describes the powerful effects of genetic engineering on the apples of the future. In Wenatchee, Washington, world capital of apple growing, he meets Mr. Granny Smith and learns about the apple's niche in the global marketplace, before setting off to sample Calvados from the pot stills of Normandy and cider from Somerset.
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"This is a cutting-edge book that dares the aspiring culinary historian to seek out not only the wealth of knowledge accumulated by the world's horticulturist and geneticist but also to appreciate that the earth and its mysteries can be a writer's most treasured resource." - Joan Reardon October/November 1998Times Literary Supplement
"Besides being an elegant writer, Mr Browning is good company. Some of the more difficult science is presented as conversation, and a clutch of recipes, also presented in conversational style, look as though they will result in something delicious." - Paul Levy 09/10/1999 |
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