Description - Fresh! by Brian Patterson
* Why don't strawberries taste as good as they look?
* How have plants influenced siege warfare?
* How can a bowl of fruit harm your houseplants?
* What determines flavours and tastes?
* Why are most seeds poisonous but most ripe fuits not?
* Can genetic engineering be good for you?
If you thought that chemistry, ethnobotany and nutrition were dull, read this. Fresh! is a book to excite your mind as well as your salivary glands.
Over the centuries, people have taken wild plant foods and improved them to provide a wide range of fruits, vegetables, cereals and spices. These days we recognise the importance of these foods in living healthy lives, and now we have the technology to develop plants in even more exciting ways.
This book can help you to buy better food, eat a more interesting and varied diet, and produce safer and more innovative results in the kitchen. It will show you how best to store food in the fridge and freezer, and how to keep your flours and spices from being invaded by little crawly creatures. Fresh! will take the mystery out of modern processes like controlled atmosphere storage and genetic engineering.
Fresh! makes fascinating reading. It will be of interest to students of all ages looking for an introduction to the history and future of plant foods, non-scientists who are concerned where technology is taking them, and to anybody involved in the production, distribution or selling of plant foods.
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