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The food explorer : the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats /

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands more--to the American plate.

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Main Author: Stone, Daniel 1985- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Dutton, [2018]
Subjects and Genres:
Fairchild, David, > 1869-1954.
Fairchild, David, > 1869-1954
Botanists > United States > Biography.
Food habits > United States > History.
Food crops > United States > History.
Botanistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Habitudes alimentaires > États-Unis > Histoire.
Cultures vivrières > États-Unis > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Culinary.
COOKING > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Agriculture & Food.
Botanists.
Food crops.
Food habits.
United States.
Biography.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chance encounters
  • One thousand dollars
  • East of Suez
  • Guest and protégé
  • The listless Pacific
  • One cause, one country
  • Crossing countries
  • Alligator pears
  • Grapes of a Venetian monk
  • Citrus maxima
  • Lemons, leaves, and the dawn of new light
  • On the banks of the Tigris
  • Bell's grand plan
  • A brain awhirl
  • Cherry trees with no cherries
  • The urge to walk
  • Outlaws, brigands, and murderers
  • Fly the coop
  • Sad and mad and so utterly unnecessary
  • Wij zijn Amerikanen
  • Epilogue.

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