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How Carrots Won the Trojan War

✍️ Rupp, Rebecca
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🏛 Storey Publishing 📅 2011 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781603429689

📝 Description: How Carrots Won the Trojan War

Vegetables are more than just food for humans--they've been characters, companions, and even protagonists throughout history. "How Carrots Won the Trojan War" is a delightful collection of little-known stories about the origins, legends, and historical significance of 23 of the world's most popular vegetables.

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Rebecca Rupp offers a delightful collection of little-known stories that highlight how vegetables have acted as characters and companions throughout history. It is light on heavy academic analysis or traditional recipe instruction, meaning strict cookbook collectors looking for culinary techniques or meal plans will find it unsuited to their needs. Instead, it targets casual historians and curious eaters who prefer culinary trivia over cooking guides. If you want a technical manual or a step-by-step cookbook, look elsewhere; if you want entertaining kitchen-table folklore, this hits the mark.
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Rebecca Rupp offers a delightful collection of little-known stories that highlight how vegetables have acted as characters and companions throughout history. It is light on heavy academic analysis or traditional recipe instruction, meaning strict cookbook collectors looking for culinary techniques or meal plans will find it unsuited to their needs. Instead, it targets casual historians and curious eaters who prefer culinary trivia over cooking guides. If you want a technical manual or a step-by-step cookbook, look elsewhere; if you want entertaining kitchen-table folklore, this hits the mark.

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